Encouraging

Accurate comment on the Yale-Harvard Game must needs be a reminder of the obvious. More than half a century of athletic relationships have demonstrated to the public as well as to Harvard and Yale men the defeat of true sportsmanship.

Here is one contest where defeat carries no sting and victory produces no conceit. As a consequence the game is much the same in prospect as in retrospect. The teams go on the field and the spectators enter the stadium with enthusiasm unalloyed by the distaste of defeat which so often provides a disagreeable undercurrent of repression. All are aware that the afternoon's game holds no potential ruin of the evening's pleasure.

There is something distinctly elevating to be found in such a situation. The importance of football as a game is not minimized. Neither is the keenness of the rivalry destroyed. Yet after it is all over, there remain two universities, bounded by the common bond of education and the cause of enlightenment.

And so one can express to Captain Webster, Mr. Jones, and the entire Yale team the hope that they win and win decisively with no implication against the football team or good name of Harvard. --The Yale News.