Quoted below are two editorials. Both are about Harvard football. That by the Chicago Tribune appeared the morning of the Harvard-Yale game. The one by the Manchester Union was published after the Harvard-Dartmouth game. The first is the Proclamation of a newspaper which calls itself "The World's Greatest". The second is the modest expression of a newspaper which makes no pretension to flamboyant greatness. But by their fruits ye shall know them.

The Cellar Championship

Yale will beat Harvard today or Harvard will beat Yale or neither will be competent to do even that, Princeton ran away with both of them and Princeton was beaten by Colgate and tied the Navy, which in turn was beaten by Michigan so badly that Michigan is almost as sorry to have done it as it is to have had Northwestern do what it did here on Soldiers' field. Some victories can be as pathetic as some defeats.

The Three which were big and are now little have an agreement which prevents them from going away for intersectional games. Wellesley, we note, is in the east and so is Vassar. There is plenty of competition of their kind in the ease.

Yale is playing Harvard for the cellar championship. May the worst team lose! --Chicago Tribune.

Harvard in Defeat

It is a blessing to the cause of American education that Harvard can be defeated in football with comparative ease. It is a blessing to the cause of education that Harvard, Yale, Princeton, once the only football institutions in the country, long the invincible football colleges, can now be defeated by very much smaller institutions.

It is lucky for the country that the earliest colleges to develop football were the ones that did it. For it is plain to even those who neither run nor read that though Harvard is now rather inconspicuous as a football institution, it has not stepped down from its throne as the great mother of American education.

Had some university, less secure in its position been the first great exponent of football and then had been deposed, the effect would have been unfortunate. For the popular standard of measurement of a university's excellence would have been its prowess in athletics. The smaller colleges, when suffering a period of eclipse in athletics, would have found little benefit in asserting their scholastics worth. The public is not conversant with such matters.

But just as it knows without personal investigation, taking it on trust, that it is twenty-five thousand miles around the world, it knows that Harvard is great scholastically, great in the pursuit of truth, greater in its liberty of thought.

Therefore, because Harvard, great educationally, may be whipped on the gridiron, the public grasps the fact that smaller institutions may lose football battles and yet continue to contribute to the advancement of learning.

Harvard has done two things of advantage to the country. One directly. It has taken its defects as any gentleman should, in good temper and without excuses and recriminations, something rather unusual among our colleges and has brought home to the public the truth we have just been discussing.   Manchester Union