"Harvard Sucks"

DESPITE THE inspired performance of the Crimson football team last Saturday, The Game brought one major embarrassment upon the fans on the West side of Soldier's Field for the fourth game in a row: the sound of 10,000 men of Harvard--or at least 20 freshmen--yelling "Harvard rejects" at the opposing players and fans.

This childish and witless retort was inspired last weekend by an equally tasteless cheer ("Harvard sucks"), and while both cheer probably contain some measure of truth, the explicit elitism makes the Crimson response far more offensive. In that self-satisfying chant, students and alumni--the most enthusiastic of whom were doubtless drawn from waiting lists--showed what is worst about Harvard.

The cheer seemed immature when introduced at the Cornell game this fall, and by halftime of the Yale game, it was best described by another cheer used by both sides: boring.