The Nationale Lacrosse Association, of which the Harvard club is a member, has decided to send a twele to England during the coming spring. The game of lacrosse has met with considerable favor in England, and her associations of gentlemen amateurs are very desirous of meeting a team of players from this country. In the north of Ireland, where the association is headed by the Earl of Dufferin, the feeling is much the same. This good feeling ensures a pleasant and successful trip,-and it is to be hoped that victory will fall to the lot of our American team. Nor is this unlikely. The playas in this country have had considerable instruction from old Canadians now resident here, and one or two of the men most likely to go have lived and played the game in Canada itself.

As the twelve is to be representative of the various clubs and players throughout this part of the United States, where the game is most prevalent, it would be particularly fitting that the Harvard club should have at least one man on it. The Harvard club was the first among the colleges to take up this interesting and invigorating sport. To it is chiefly due the position which the game holds among students today, if having taken the initiative in forming a stable association of college clubs. Our club, too, has held the championship since inter-collegiate contests were inaugurated. For these reasons our men should try to win positions on this team.

Unfortunately the trip will have to be made during term time. The twelve is expected to said on May 7, and land in this country on June 20, or there abouts. This makes a trip of nearly seven weeks. The reason why this time of year was selected for the trip is that if will enable the matches to be played during the English and Irish "season." If a trip was made during our summer vacation there would not be any paying audience, as people would all be away from town. This makes it bad for college men, as much for us as for any, because the trip takes in the whole period of the annual examinations. Nevertheless, the men at Princeton and Yale hope to get leave of absence, provided that they are chosen, and it seems probable that our faculty would be lenient in the matter. There are to be no games with professionals but only with gentlemen amateurs, so the 'powers' could have no far for the morla welfare of the men.

Four of our club had signified their intention of trying for this team before they knew when it would go. Now that the conditions are all made public and they learn the true state of affairs, it is to be hoped that they will still continue to be candidates. They have had as long experience as most of the men who have signed to go, and certainly stand a good chance of being selected. The only drawback is that no Harvard man was chosen to form part of the remainder of the team. Harvard certainly deserved a place on it for the reasons mentioned above. But the men already selected are supposed to be impartial, and we shall have to entrust the chances of our men to their judgment.