HOW TO HELP THE FOOTBALL TEAM.

Every year at mass meetings and in the columns of the CRIMSON there are issued at about this time of the football season warnings concerning the necessity of quiet in the vicinity of dormitories where football men are trying to sleep. Yet almost every year sees violations of such warnings, and in almost every case these violations are made by men noticeable only for their lack of intelligence or of college spirit or of both. Perhaps it is impossible to appeal successfully to men who at this critical time of the football season have not spirit enough to keep quiet on the streets at night, especially in the vicinity of dormitories, but it is to be hoped that the men who do realize the importance of quiet will help enforce it. On the very night of a mass meeting held last week in which attention was called to the harm of the noise, an unusually loud disturbance took place at a late hour very near the rooms of several football men. Exactly the offenders who were responsible need not be known. They certainly showed a lack of spirit that was disgraceful. By simply keeping absolutely quiet after ten o'clock at night, the members of the University may render a valuable service to the football team, and thus materially aid Harvard's chances for success on Saturday.