We thoroughly endorse what the president of the Senior Class writes today concerning the scrimmage at the Tree. We have heard from different sources that several men in Ninety-six are unwilling to join their classmates in striving for the flowers, saying that they are opposed to the custom. It is not unnatural to impute immediately another much more unworthy motive to the men who take this position. It is well known that in past years some few men have refused to enter the scrimmage through simple laziness, which it would be a kind of flattery to call indifference. It is plain that it is somewhat irksome and involves a little trouble to put on a football suit, and that it seems inconsistent with the dignity and importance of a Senior to rough it a bit at the Tree. But the custom is nevertheless a good one and as old as Class Day itself, and the most important of the events of this day. It will not hurt any one to enter this friendly contest, and it should mean a good deal to the men who value and love Harvard's old traditions. We must confess that we have far more respect for the senior who joins in the scrimmage with a sense of hearty good fellowship and enthusiasm, than for the senior who watches the fun from a comfortable seat on the stand well out of harm's way.