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To the Editors of the CRIMSON:

Yesterday afternoon our baseball nine left for Philadelphia. In spite of a cheering notice in the CRIMSON, there was no one in the Square to cheer the team off.

It is as the direct result of a spirit like this, that after thirty odd years of football, the wall of the Trophy Room is plastered with only four footballs, and that the Harvard crew has trailed persistently behind the Yale eight at New London.

The nine so far has escaped this, because the fellows have believed the nine would win. This year the season has opened discouragingly and the University has therefore not stood by the nine.

If it is a genuine manifestation of Harvard spirit, that its teams should leave uncheered and unencouraged, then the large measure of defeat which has been Harvard's portion is rightly deserved.

For the team to lose because they are outplayed is a thing to be deplored: for the team to lose because the University does not care is a thing of which to be ashamed. 1907.