RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN

A sportsman's life is inevitably connected with risk. Often it is the risk itself that makes the particular event attractive to stout hearted men. But a true lover of the game is never fool-hardy, he never invites that risk. When mere chance then converts hard play into a fatal injury men pause to praise the play that cost him life and damn the fate that robbed him of it.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan will be buried with full military rights today. No one deserves these honors more than he. Through its athletic director Harvard will pay its official homage in person. He will communicate Harvard's sorrow to West Point; sorrow over astragic event which halted a courageous young man's life.