If the men who are to lead the cheering at Springfield have not yet been chosen, we should like to make a suggestion on the subject. Last year the cheering was only fairly good and this for the simple reason that some of the men appointed to lead were not fitted either in physical qualifications or in their standing among the students for this particular kind of work. In several sections the cheering was weak and erratic because there was no one in front who had voice enough to make himself heard or personality enough to command respect. This year the enthusiasm which is being stored up here every day will break out in great confusion on the day of the game unless there are capable men to keep it in some sort of order. The men chosen to lead the cheering should be men with good voices whose records here at college have shown them to possess the qualities of natural leadership. Unless they have the respect of the students in the sections no concerted cheering can be expected. And this is an all important point, for good cheering can be a very substantial aid in winning a game, and poor cheering, expressive as it is of a fickle disposition in a crowd, can do much damage. The cheers from the Harvard side should roll out over the field in perfectly organized unity and should thus express the sturdiness and stability of the Harvard feeling. And this suggests another point. The Harvard cheer has not nearly the impressive quality today which it had several years ago when it was given more slowly. We hurry the thing now so that it comes dangerously near the Yale cheer and loses its distinctive quality. It would be well at this game for the leaders to make the crowd cheer slowly and try thus to get back the old cheer which was much more telling.