HAT CORDS

It is interesting as a matter of passing notice, though not worth much actually, that Harvard, having joined the infantry, now wears a hat cord of blue, the color once consecrated to defeat by Mahan and Brickley and the cause of our own undoing under Black. In like manner Yale, having joined the artillery, now wears a hat cord of red, whose tone was once the battle-sign to Yale. So are the heavens altered. Berkeley held that all color is illusion. And the Army has made it so.

It is also interesting that the aspiration of both Yale and Harvard in hat cord color schemes is the black and gold, which is strongly reminiscent of Princeton's colors. That trinity of oriflammes which once made gaudy the air on November afternoons have now become more mixed than an Austrian nationality.

The slogan of the pennant boys has now no more meaning. "Get the winning colors, mister!" They are all winning colors.