There is just one thing that will win the game for Harvard today and that is the most essential quality of a good team,- pluck. The critics who make it a business to weigh scores against scores, and to forecast results by shrewd comparisons, may fight the battle out beforehand and give the victory to one team or the other. But every true Harvard man will cast such considerations aside today. The past will play no part in the game with Pennsylvania. The team will go on to the field with a definite task,- to win, and that not because other games during the season have resulted in this way or that, but becase they feel that they can and will play a better, pluckier game today. In this they have got to be backed up by every Harvard man at the field.

There is one thing however, which is more important than winning and which alone makes a victory mean anything. If today's game is for a moment anything but clean and manly football, it would be far better for the sport that it were not played, and not a few would feel like losing faith in their own expressed convictions as to the healthiness of the game. We have every reason to expect that the contest will be beyond all question in this regard.

An unusually large number of graduates, who are in Cambridge in connection with the Hasty Pudding Club's centennial, will be at the game today. Let us show them not only that we can play good football, but that we can cheer as heartily as ever. We have got to do both.