The game with Georgetown University this afternoon is likely to prove as close a struggle as the one with Princeton, although there is not the same interest centered in it. We have seen how, in the moment of intense excitement, a crowd will forget the treatment which is usually accorded a visiting team. There may be occasion today when Harvard will again be called upon to help win the game by cheering. If there is we hope there will be as sincere and hearty an outburst as on Tuesday. That is the kind of enthusiasm which inspires. But the hooting and guying and attempts to rattle the other team are an imposition on the good name of the University. Harvard has always had the reputation of treating a visiting team with the utmost courtesy. At times on Tuesday this was evidently forgotten. We will admit that there were extenuating circumstances and yet they did not excuse certain features of the cheering. We have for the remainder of this month some peculiarly interesting games in store for us. It is enough to remind the college of the danger there is in carrying things too far and of the harm it does to us in the eyes of the public. We do not think the cheering on Tuesday was as had as some would imply and yet there were portions of it which no true Harvard man wants to see repeated.
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The Serenade to the Princeton Nine.