The game with Princeton this afternoon will be the most important that the Harvard team will play this year. It will, in a measure, take the place of the Yale game and the enthusiasm which has before marked the game at Springfield must this year be vented in the Princeton game. Today's contest, the first since 1889, will be, as we sincerely hope, the beginning of a long series of games with an old and as her repeated victories show a formidable rival. Of the six games played between 1883 and 1889, Princeton won five. Since the League was ended, however, a settled system of training and coaching has been adopted under which the condition and the team play of the Harvard eleven has improved rapidly from year to year. In the game today with a team so often victorious in the past, we should be able to form a good idea of the real value of the new system. A victory will prove conclusively the wisdom of its adoption, and will lend encouragement, not only to this year's team, but to future teams which will represent Harvard.

And certainly, the chance for a victory is good. In spite of the fact that the eleven has not made as rapid improvement as the bright prospects at the first of the season led us to expect, it has developed superior team-play. The team individually and as a whole have worked hard and thoroughly deserve success. But, though we confidently expect a victory, yet whether the team wins or loses, it has the loyal, whole-hearted support and trust of every member of the University.