Rally?

To the Editor of the CRIMSON:

As an un-Bostonian Harvard man, I hall with delight the idea of having a rally Friday night before the Yale game. This rally will fulfill a long-felt need at Harvard. My only fear is that it will be held in such spiritless fashion (because of the celebrated Harvard indifference) as to be completely valueless.

I suggest that the College assemble in Harvard Square with torchlight's and flares, and behind the band, march down Boylston Street to the Stadium, where the fight and pep speeches would be made. We would do well to take a leaf out of the book of Andover-Exeter tradition and pull the team along the route in an open wagon. The marchers should sing Harvard songs, and so arrange themselves along the route as to form a continuous alley of rooters for the team. The throwing of flowers before the team's wagon (a custom in use at California institutions) might well be adopted. A delegation of Radcliffe girls as song and cheer leaders would lend a further touch of color to the scene. "Beat Yale" banners, pennants, and buttons should be everywhere.

The picturesqueness of the scene would be a happy memory to many a present undergraduate long after his college days were over.

The speakers should be forceful and not mince words, for after all the fate of the year and of President Conant's administration will be settled Saturday afternoon on the Stadium turf. Harvard has but recently lost a President, because his teams could not beat Yale.

And once the rally habit has been regained, why discard it? Why not a rally every Friday before the games and even before the Wednesday scrimmages? To some this may seem overemphasis, but to me it symbolizes the dawn of a new era of victorious teams and of lettermen who are not afraid to wear their H's in the Yard! Yours for "College Spirit,"   "Brown of Harvard."