THE HARVARD-YALE DRILL.

There is a rumor spreading around the university concerning a Harvard-Yale drill to take the place of the annual football game. This is an outgrowth of the old tradition that neither college can thrive without competing with the other. If the Elis were infantrymen we would gladly journey to New Haven and meet them in mortal combat, say with blank cartridges at fifty yards or even with wooden bayonets at a shorter distance. Yet with so many Yale men up here last summer, there has grown up a certain comradeship between the Universities. We thirst no longer for their blood. The result is the idea of a joint drill.

Thus the Yale soldiers are to support us with artillery as we deploy and manoeuver through the Bowl. From goal post to goal post we will dash while the artillerymen sit peacefully on their steeds and caissons chuckling inwardly. It is indeed a subtle witticism from the Yale point of view. Except to amuse them there can be no reason for this joust. Crowds there will be none for who will travel to New Haven to see a puny two thousand would-be soldiers, when they can go to Yaphank or Ayer and watch tens of thousands drill.

After we poor infantrymen have run around the field until exhausted, the artillerymen will trot calmly homeward. It looks like another Yale victory.