The enthusiasm displayed by Harvard's spectators in last Saturday's game, enthusiasm rising even above the discomforts of wet feet and chilly spines, was quite as remarkable, and pleasant, a feature of the game as was the score itself.

This enthusiasm may have been natural exuberance at the rare spectacle of a Harvard score board discarding the simple arithmetic of football games and adopting the higher mathematics of thermometers, stock tickers, speedometers, and voting machines. But its thunderous expression, in cheer after lusty cheer, lasting throughout the game, was certainly due to the capable direction of the four energetic squads of cheer leaders selected on a competitive basis for the first time in Harvard's athletic history. Seldom have Harvard cheer leaders shown such energy, such ability, or such scrupulous attention to the long-neglected courtesies of the football field.

The CRIMSON, among the first to oppose the new system when it was announced last spring, now gladly withdraws its objections in the light of last Saturday's performance. Save for a few offensive exhortations to "Talk it up!" or, still more odious, to "Pep it up!" which will, it is to be hoped, be omitted hereafter, the new order of cheer leaders seemed fully as dignified, and far more capable than the more casual leaders of the past.

It is a time of flux at Soldiers Field. Changes have been made in the football museum and in the methods of cheer leading. And it does not seem that these changes have been made for the worse.