In the punishment which the Yale faculty has inflicted on the freshman class, the Harvard freshmen are necessarily included. In past years the prospect of a contest with Yale has been the chief incentive to strenuous training, and this incentive is now taken away. As a substitute for it in baseball, the attempt is being made to get two games this spring with the Princeton freshmen. The attempt, we hope, will meet with success. The freshman nine has always been a most valuable means of developing material for the University team, and the latter would be sure to suffer if the ball players in Ninety-eight were discouraged at the beginning of their career. This point of view, however, makes too little of the disappointment to the freshmen themselves. The records made against Yale are always an important feature in the athletic history of a class, and it is hard for Ninety-eight to be deprived of even the chance of recording a victory. The games with Princeton would be some consolation for this unexpected loss.
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