CONCERNING EMPHASIS

Last year when the Crimson made its stalwart defense of sanity in college football against the jibes of news writers and the cries of "sour grapes" issuing from that cavity, supposedly the native habitat of vox populi, there were those who believed that a desire for the star had afflicted one journalistic moth. Today in the pleasant glow which is a part of a well earned victory in any human activity the CRIMSON remains possessed of exactly the same viewpoint. Moderation in all things, including undergraduate athletics, is still a justifiable belief.

Nor was the moth completely unable to approach the star. Class teams this year are effecting what they have hitherto failed to bring about; the whole emphasis of the athletic director and those who are working with him is toward effectiveness tempered with sanity. When the Dartmouth published its editorial on mass meetings the same spirit was expressed. The less hysteria attached to football, the better. So, as in many other varieties of human interest, the truth of the matter seems to be that clarity begins at home. If the larger colleges of the East can maintain sobriety and sense in their athletic contests, if they can realize that football in its place is excellent, but that the place is limited, then there need be no disturbance about "over emphasis", in victory or in defeat.