THE WILL TO WIN

The mass meeting tonight will serve two ends. The lesser of these in importance is the opportunity of rehearsing the songs for Saturday's game. Thanks to the communication in this column, the program will be known to everyone before hand. Although the singing comes during the period when both teams are off the field, it has been an integral and indispensable part of the ceremonies. And since nobody can doubt that it is worth doing, it is surely worth doing well. Previously during the season the singing has not been good, indeed often not even passable. There are two obvious reasons for this--first, that the words of the songs were not learned, and second, that the band played too loud and too fast. The latter can easily be rectified and doubtless will be. But the words of the songs cannot be forcibly poured into indifferent heads, and the learning of them depends solely upon the individual.

The other and main end of tonight's meeting will be to focus and get across to the team the confidence which the undergraduate body has in its ability to master the Bull-dog. A wide-spread panic which followed the game on Saturday has given place, through the process of sober second thought, to a calmer and more reasonable frame of mind. Fortunately this does not nor will not approach over-confidence. Yale never met Harvard without the firm determination to win, and there is no reason to believe that its playing on Saturday will be in any degree inferior to its brilliant record this year. But Yale's goal line has been crossed more than once during the season, while to its powerful offense Harvard will oppose a defense which has been continually growing in strength. It cannot be doubted that the Harvard team has had, hidden somewhere within it, great potential power; and if that bidden power is ever to be drawn out and made a reality, it will be done this week when the team reaches the climax of its season. That is a problem, however, for the coaches alone. What the undergraduate body can do tonight at the Union, tomorrow at the field, and Saturday at the game, is to show, in no uncertain tone, that it too has the will to win.