On Our Enthusiasm.

To the Editors of the Crimson:

To a student who would be rejoiced to see the Faculty as well as the student body working for the interests of Harvard on its athletic side, encouraging the crews and teams and sharing in the enthusiasm which so obviously helps them to win, it seems that there is need of an organization of the enthusiasm itself which shall prevent all violent and dangerous demonstration. By having an inspiriting mass meeting occasionally, by having some well-led cheering and marching on the evening after a victory, doing away with any prolonged noise and rioting and especially with the use of firearms, this object would be accomplished. Further, it seems that no harm could come from a bonfire on Soldiers Field, which is open enough to be a safe spot, provided the students furnished for the fire a lot of cord wood instead of using for fuel College property, such as board walks and running tracks. This plan of buying wood, by the way, is a regular institution at Andover.

The students, on the one side, should be sufficiently fair-minded to have their jollification without any violence, with a true Harvard spirit backing it; while, on the other side, the Faculty should be willing to compromise, remembering to be as tolerant in this direction as they are, say, in matters of religion and politics. Members of the Faculty must have been young and enthusiastic once.

If the Faculty and the student body should pull together in this manner, report of this harmonious Harvard spirit could not help going forth to the world as the most praiseworthy phase of Harvard's renaissance this year, and could not help increasing the name and fame of Fair old Harvard.

UNDERGRADUATE.