Psychology of Wild Cheering Section.

Over in the Department of Psychology there is a little machine which, by a curve on a soot-covered surface, indicates the fatigue undergone when a subject tries rhythmically to lift a weight by flexing a finger. The subject bends his finger and pulls, till his finger will bend and pull no more; then the experimenter encourages him by suddenly crying in his ear: "Pull! Pull!" And lo and behold, in the fire of his aroused self, the subject can and does pull! All of which serves to illustrate the importance of mass meetings before, and a wild cheering section during, a game. Enthusiasm can "egg on" a strong fighting team to work wonders. Pennsylvanian.