Everybody who attended the game Saturday must have felt that the cheering was about as poor as it could possibly have been. There was little unity about it and almost no enthusiasm. In fact we have never known a game in which Harvard supporters have made so little demonstration of their feeling. There was a certain amount of excuse for this in the fact that not enough men were appointed to lead the cheering and again in the fact that the sections were so large that the leaders could not make themselves heard. But even admitting this the men who could hear the leaders did not respond with any sort of heartiness. Only when Harvard made some remarkable play did anything like enthusiasm show itself. At the very time when the team needed encouragement, no encouragement was given. There seems, in fact, to be a mistaken idea of the purpose of cheering. It is popularly considered as simply a form of applause. This is a wrong impression-it is more than applause. The best cheering ought to be given when the team is not doing its best, when it most needs cheering. In tomorrow's game the students must make a manly effort to arose themselves from the lethargy into which they have fallen and to make the team feel that the University is still behind them. This game will be the last chance to show the team that their efforts have been appreciated.