A football game between Harvard and some far-western team at Pasadena during the Christmas holidays would be of the greatest advantage in every conceivable way for the University. The Athletic Committee and the Faculty on whose decision, the fate of the proposed trip rests must consider these same advantages carefully, and not allow the traditional conservative policy of Harvard to influence too much their final decision.

The Endowment Fund by that time will have reached its most critical stage. The men who are actively interested in Harvard will have already contributed. Those who have lost touch, who have settled far away from Cambridge where the name Harvard is scarcely heard, will be the men on whom the Endowment Drive must look for aid in the future. What better way to stir old memories in these distant graduates than to send an undefeated Harvard football team through their country! -- a team which has beaten Yale! The psychological effect should be tremendous. For, after all, the eleven will represent the College in the West; its merits will be our merits.

But outside of the financial benefit accruing to the Endowment Fund, such a trip would undoubtedly raise the name of the University throughout the country. In times past, Harvard was content to rest on its worth alone. Those who came to test that worth were welcome, but no effort was made to encourage their coming. As a consequence, only the ones who lived nearby did come here, and the charge of sectionalism was made against the University. In the last fifteen years, due to the work of the Harvard Clubs, the cause for the prejudice was largely overcome. But the words of these loyal graduates cannot influence their localities as much as is desirable; there is still a belief existent in some quarters that Harvard is by choice a strictly eastern man's college.

This opinion is too absurd to be permitted to stand. But the first move to eradicate it must come from us. If some little notice on our part were given to the West, such as taking the trouble to send a football team on a long tour, the West will not be slow in response. Such action could not bear the stigma of propaganda. It would be no more than healthy community interest.