It is difficult to understand the position which Yale has taken with regard to the football game next fall, or rather to understand her motive in taking it. She can never have expected that Harvard would conform to the preposterous conditions which she proposes, and it seems extremely ill-advised just now to complicate the already difficult football problem. If it were Yale's deliberate intention to prevent a game next year, she could scarcely have gone about it in a surer way. Harvard men will be in perfect accord with the spirit of the letter in which their athletic committee has replied to Yale. They will wait with eagerness for further developments at New Haven, and in the interval of uncertainty all final judgment must be withheld. For the present it can only be hoped that Yale's letter does not express the actual feeling in the college.
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