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Hobart Herald 73 promises that the smallness of the present Freshman' class is no criterion by which we m a y judge the size of the classes that are to enter up in coming years. With our new gym. and a wider curric ulum which our other new buildings will afford us, Hobart should in a few years have a hundred and fifty or a hundred and seventy- five men which is a sufficient number, according to the general idea, for an ideal small college. The spirit which the fellows displayed in regard to the Roches ter game is to be highly commended. First, they showed their spirit b y turning out en masse to accompany the team to Roches ter. Then, although having to cheer against a band and a far larger number of Rochester rooters they did not give up, but gave the yells and songs with all their might. But the especially praiseworthy things has been the almost total absence of an y knocking on the team. Of course -we all know that the team had to battle against superior weight, that each man played his very hardest, and that if the game had been played on a dry field there would have been a different score, but there is usually a ten dency for some to knock the team if it loses, no matter how hard it may have played nor against what odds. This omission of knocking shows the right kind of spirit and every one should take care to cultivate this t \ e .Hobart spirit. It doesn’t help a team any to be knocked no matter how much it loses, and nothing is really accomplished by knocking, persistent or otherwise. No doubt the finest game of football that has ever been witnessed on our Campus was that which was played between teams repre senting the Sophomore and Freshmen classes on the afternoon of November ninth. The game will be covered athletically by the Athletic Editor but the Editor of Campus cannot refrain from saying a few words in praise of a game which, he has heard m a n y say, was far ahead of anything ever before seen in the college. Due to a breakdown of the printer’s press which prints the green letters the manager could not get all the advertizing done that he wished, but the news that the game was to be played had been
