For many years Yale, Harvard and Princeton were known as the Big Three. They were probably known as the Big Three for some seasons after they were no longer the Big Three in football. Of late years they have rarely been given any the best of it in the annual award of anythical championships. Last fall, for one example, most of the championship talk was about Penn State, although Harvard hadn't lost a game. Yet letters continue to troop in upon various football writers asking why Harvard, Yale or Princeton is always awarded the championship. The answer is--that they are not.--New York Tribune.

There is probably no single feature which so impresses a neutral spectator at a Harvard-Princeton, Yale-Princeton, or Yale-Harvard game as the traditional snake-dance ceremony, wherein the victors march to the stands where the vanquished await them, for an exchange of cheers. Saturday Princeton cheered Yale and Yale cheered Princeton with a heartiness unexcelled during the game--a striking evidence of the good feeling existing between the two Universities. Visitors from New Haven found quite as warm hospitality at Princeton as they have found at Cambridge in the alternate years, and it is this fact as much as any other which has led public opinion to group the three together. Differing in age and in numbers, and quite unequalled in numerous ways by many of the other great educational institutions of the country, a similarity of standards and to a great extent of ideals has led inevitably to the creation of a bond of sympathy between the three universities which remains unaffected by the triumphs or the defeats of the moment.

The epithet "Big Three" in football came unsought for and unasked. So far as we may speak for the appellation we did not sponsor, the reason for it appears to consist in the fact that of all educational institutions who have consistently set forth teams of the highest caliber, there are no other three who have, by reason of an inevitable bond of sympathy shared in common, liked best to beat each other. --Yale Daily News.