After the great improvement which the 'varsity showed in the game on Saturday it is to be hoped that there will be a corresponding change for the better in the attitude of the students toward the team. It is all very well to say that Harvard men should be advanced far enough from barbarism to be able to applaud impartially. Cheering, however, we look upon as something entirely different from applause. The latter in football can be used simply to express appreciation of good playing. Cheering is, or should be, used as a means of encouragement. Almost every small college that has played in Cambridge this fall has clearly out-done us in this matter of support. Harvard men cannot afford to give a too willing world any chance to accuse them of "indifference."
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