Referring to the support due to the football eleven and the coaches from now to the day of the game with Pennsylvania, we spoke of this support as being an intangible thing which made itself felt chiefly in the atmosphere of the University. It would seem to be unnecessary to add what must be evident to every one, that there is one tangible way of showing interest in the team, and of stirring up this atmosphere, and that is by every man's going down to Soldiers Field to watch the practice. Nothing can be more disheartening to any college team than to feel that it has been left alone to go through the hard routine of daily practice simply to provide a spectacular performance once in a while for the amusement of an unsympathetic crowd. Yet that is the light in which the football team's work must inevitably appear, if no more students take, what they should not be willing to call, the trouble, to go down to the Field every afternoon. The presence of a good crowd watching the practice is not only in itself an expression of interest, but acts as a strong stimulus to individual exertion on the part of every player on the field.

Much as Harvard men may resent the charge recently considered in this column, to the effect that university athletics are entirely committed to a small number of players while the rest stand by in lazy indifference, it must be admitted that the necessity for such appeals as this gives color to the imputation, even in the eyes of persons better informed than the one who uttered it.

Considerations of loyalty to the University, then, the desire to keep its athletics in the proper light before the public and our own graduates, besides the very strong claims of the team itself and of the game, should stir up every student here to a greater interest, in the few days that are left of the football season.