If the game of last Saturday had been an important one, any comment on Harvard's defeat would have been superfluous. No one could feel it more intensely than the men themselves and there would be nothing to gain by dwelling on what everybody knew only too well. The case seems to be different with the Tufts game. The trouble was not that the team did not contain the best players available; it is necessary to use inferior players at times in order to develop material, as every one knows, though we believe that this should not be done at the risk of defeat. What lost the game for Harvard was the listlessness of most of the players and their failure to appreciate the necessity of playing with spirit in even an unimportant game.

The second game with Dartmouth today will give the nine an excellent opportunity to show what they can do and we heartily wish them success.