Animosity toward Yale on the athletic field, once a reality and later a tradition, is now largely a myth. In its place there is the right sort of rivalry combined with clean sportsmanship. Dean Briggs has commented on this feeling in his report on athletics. His words, bearing added weight because they appear in an official document, sound the welcome closing of a needlessly hostile attitude, that has long and steadily been growing weaker at both universities. Yale and Harvard have too much in common, their ultimate aims too nearly coincide for any petty barriers to exist between them.
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