A Regular Army Cheer

To the Editor of the CRIMSON:

I have read, with amusement, reprints in the daily press of an editorial recently published in "The CRIMSON" under the title "The Army Game."

If this editorial has been quoted correctly, it is but another instance of the CRIMSON's customary rudeness and lack of tact. From this editorial, it would seem that the CRIMSON is definitely attempting to antagonize an honored rival and to attract cheap notoriety to itself. The CRIMSON charges that the lack of interest in the Harvard-Army game is evidenced by the apparent unwillingness of Harvard undergraduates to make the trip to West Point. Is the CRIMSON unaware of the fact that these are times of depression, and that many people, particularly college undergraduates, find it difficult to make a trip with the attendant expense that such a long trip necessarily entails?

Harvard authorities have recently signed a four-year contract with West Point calling, as I understand it, for three games to be played at Cambridge and one game to be played at West Point. This being the case, the only way in which one can interpret the CRIMSON editorial is that certain irresponsible undergraduates are advocating that Harvard shall repudiate its contracts.

After the regrettable severance of athletic relations with Princeton, the majority of graduates welcomed the proposed renewal of football games with the Army as a most satisfactory substitute for Princeton in the Harvard schedule. It is true that West Point and Harvard do not hold the same ideas as to eligibility rules and scholastic requirements, but I, for one, will never be persuaded that any boy will ever undergo four years of rigorous discipline at West Point simply to play football.

In closing, I can only say that many of us have, in the past three years, looked forward to the Army game as one second only to Yale in interest, and it is an undeniable fact that Harvard has never, in any way, had cause to complain of West Point's sportsmanship as West Point now has of Harvard's. A. J. Cassatt '27.

Boston, Mass.