EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON:- Your editorial in Thursday morning's issue, maintaining that the remedy for our present athletic condition lies in public opinion, is decidedly to the point. You voice the sentiments of a large number of undergraduates and a still larger number of graduates.

There is no escaping the fact that our failure in intercollegiate athletics is largely due to a morbid and unhealthy cynicism prevailing here-a cynicism that represses individuality. self-assertion, and even enthusiasm. No one admires more than myself the quality of "self-conceitedness"- if I may use the term-that is fostered here. But I protest against the extreme to which the culture of the conventional and the worship of the proper is carried in this University. It is true the Harvard man of to-day has admirable tact, a useful amount of self-possession, and a praiseworthy respect for appearance. But these are negative virtues and if unduly developed are worse than useless. We must have more positive qualities if we are to win foot ball matches, base ball games, and races at New London. Let every man of brains and energy feel it his duty to oppose in every possible way this growing lethargy and indifference and, worse than all, snobbishness. What is a man does assert himself too forcibly or is a trifle "fresh?" It is not a vital fault. Why suppress him? It is not always the blase or the brainless however that bray: "What an ass!" Many a man while secretly admiring independence and push, joins in with the popular chorus against the offender. Few undergraduates have any idea how childish and inane this spirit of repression appears to men outside of the college.

I repeat, let earnest men,- scholars who have pride in the reputation of the university, and athletic men to whom our success on ball field and river is so dear-unite in showing the world that Harvard at heart is not snobbish, and that we have that which will surely bring victories-enthusiasm.

GRADUATE.