students. It was founded by them and should be
liberally supported by them. It is the duty of
every man in college, if possible, to give the paper
his personal support by subscribing to it. It is to
be hoped that a larger percentage of the students
will give the needed aid than did last year.
THE recent international cricket match in
Philadelphia, with the wonderful defeat
which the American eleven gave the Eng
lish team there, has awakened an interest in that
game which will have a lasting effect in this coun
try. Cricket is gradually coming into a position
of marked importance in America and is fast mak
ing its way into all the large cities and colleges.
By those who have watched or played the game
it isheld .as second to no other sport as re
gards its qualities both for exercise and pleasure.
The fast hold which it has already taken on many
of our American colleges are sure indications of its
rank as a game, and surely we could give it a fair
trial here at P. S. C. It was tried several years
ago with much success but died out, owing to the
fact that those men who played best left college.
Since then it has sunk into oblivion. Undoubt
e,lly we coal,' support the game here if those men
who are well versed in its points would but make
the initial step and interest others in it.
THE recent trouble between the classes of '94
and '95 regarding the cane rush brings be
fore the college the question as to whether
we shall have that time-honored fight in the future
or not
During the fall of each year foot-ball is the all
absorbing subject of interest, and the success of
the College eleven is a matter of pride with the
whole body of students, and not of a single class.
Foot-ball is, and should be, of far more import
ance than a mere rush of two classes. The foot-ball
men should on no account he allowed to spoil the
work and training of weeks in the violent exertion
of a cane fight.
THE FREE LANCE.
In such scrimmages it is always foot-ball men who
are relied upon to do the m9st work and it is easi
ly seen that, if we want to put a strong team in the
field, they are just the ones who should be kept
out of all such rough and tumble struggles. Such
was the light in which the foot-ball commit
tee regarded the case this season, and it is to the
credit of the Sophomores and Freshmen that they
decided to sacrifice a little class pride for their pa
triotism to the whole college.
Their action, however, does not definitely settle
the matter. The cane rush is an interesting and
exciting event no doubt, and there are but few
college men who would like to see the old custom
die out, but when we run the risk of injuring a
foot-ball man in the scrimmage we say—do away
with the rush or else have some satisfactory ar
rangement by which first team men shall not par
ticipate in it.
THERE is a drowing tendancy among the dif
ferent classes in college, more than in the
various cliques and fraternities, to strive to
place upon college committees representatives of
classes irrespective of their ability for such work.
Now a second thought on this subject ought to re
veal io the students the error of this course. If
we want the best men on our athletic teams, and
these teams are to be representatives of the college,
and not of any class, we must in the first place put
the best men we have upon the committee who
choose them. We are then certain to have the
men representing us who have been chosen by the
college at large, regardless of the class to which
they belong.
THIS being the foot-ball season, a word to the
second team. There is a growing tendancy
among them to quit playing just because
they cannot all be substitutes on the first eleven.
Rest assured, that if we have the right kind of a
foot-ball committee, the right kind of men will be
chosen for the team. The second eleven have
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