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Indifferent cheering and poor singing marked the University's effort to support its team against Brown last Saturday. As a climax to the somewhat "gauche" and enervating exhibition, the Crimson band broke in with a song, while their opponents were still rendering their first one.

The most important problem in obtaining effective cheering or singing is good leadership. That was lacking on Saturday. But the leaders were at a disadvantage in having the cheering forces scattered through the entire stand and mingled with an audience who were there to see and not to cheer. A few Brown rooters in a compact mass completely out-did us. By reserving Section 32 behind the band for University men until the game begins the H. A. A. could avoid the scattered cheering of Saturday. But that is not enough. When the University singing is so weak it cannot be heard above the band on the other side of the Stadium there is shown a deplorable lack of energy throughout the crowd. If Harvard is to sing at all let it be a real song. And let such an excellent example as Brown set be listened to rather than interrupted.

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