BASKETBALL WITH YALE.

Tonight a University team meets Yale in a branch of sport which for some reason for other is regarded with less interest at Harvard than at almost any other university. The miserable facilities of the Hemenway Gymnasium account in part for this feeling, for they tend to prevent many men from playing basketball; but even so it is hard to understand why there are only 20 candidates for the team out of about 1450 men eligible to play. With such a small squad to begin with, and with a schedule shorter than most of the other teams have, it is no wonder that a majority of the games are lost, some of them to colleges half the size of Harvard. The under-graduates must not forget that in many places basketball ranks as one of the major sports, and our opponents think that the game is on the same footing here as it is with them. Victories by such colleges are celebrated with bonfires and general rejoicing, and are almost as much appreciated as triumphs in what Harvard considers the major sports.

It is obviously unfair that the University team should be forced to compete on this unequal footing with their adversaries. However, as long as the team is representing Harvard, even under these unfavorable auspices, the least the undergraduates can do is to go in force to the Gymnasium tonight, and encourage them to a victory over our old rival.