Again this year there is need of vigorous organized cheering at the baseball games. the game with Brown yesterday will serve as a striking example of this. During the first six innings of the game the large crowd on the benches watched the playing in the most discouraging silence. Beyond a little spasmodic clapping there was no applause whatever. There was present a small but very enthusiastic contingent of Brown men, which made the unresponsiveness of the Harvard supporters all the more marked. When the game was all but lost the Harvard men seemed to wake up, and, under the leadership of some loyal graduates, did a little really good cheering. The cheering gave the nearly-discouraged players new life, but it came too late. There probably would have been no cheering at all if a few graduates had not for very shame at the apathy of the Harvard men offered to lead.

Now what is needed is a body of regularly appointed undergraduates whose duty it will be to lead the cheering at the baseball contests, not only at the larger ones, but at every game that the team plays here. The crowd is always ready and willing to cheer if someone will lead it, but no one seems willing to undertake the responsibility of leading. Why not, then, have the baseball management appoint men to lead cheering, as they now appoint the ushers? The men who are chosen for this important service will not look upon it as a hardship, if they are the right sort of men, but rather as an honor. Cheering alone will not win a game, but it will give the players heart and snap, and the more uphill the game, the greater is the need of enthusiastic applause.