If Harvard is to make a respectable showing against Princeton tomorrow, there will have to be a change in tactics. The time for the nine to work and the students to cheer is from the very beginning of the game, not when the game has been lost. If the nine had started out to work desperately and if the students had heartily supported them in the Pennsylvania game, the score would never have been one to one at the end of the first inning. In the sixth inning, with the score seven to one against them, the nine began to show life and the spectators did their first cheering. Of how much use was it then?

Cheering gives confidence to the home team. This we believe to be a legitimate use of it. Every nine must play away from home as well as on its own grounds, and, if every University cheers for its own teams, no injustice is done in the end. It is simply not to be expected that students shall not wish to show their loyalty, and we believe that this can be done with all courtesy to visiting teams. Loyal every student ought to be and loyal every student ought to show himself to be.

Now if the students are to give confidence to the team-and the team needs it badly,- the only effective way is to begin at the start. The power of cheering is not infinite. If other things are about equal it will turn the scale; but when one nine has the confidence that comes from a winning lead and the other the nervousness that comes from a threatened defeat, then cheering is about so much noise and nothing more. Let the cheering,- honest, hearty cheering, greet the nine when it comes out of the Carey Building, and from that time on let it never be lacking as long as it will do the nine a bit of good.

And the nine needs to make a change also. The men seem contented with being about even with the other team. That will never do in games against strong nines. They need to get into the game and make the most out of every chance for runs, no matter what their opponents are doing.

Snap, dash, courage, enthusiasm, these are the qualities that count. With them, Harvard has a show for the game; without them, there is no ground for hope.