Under the assonantal headlines:

"Elevens, Good and Poor, Were Cheered

Then the Football Team Appeared

This indifference Sure Is Weird

Indifferent Teams Would Be Smeared

Mr. David F. Egan of the Boston Globe yesterday evening consigned to the immortality of print the thesis which, some what diluted by the exigencies of space, appears below:

"...The staggering development of the week to 10,000 men of Harvard was that the Thursday night rally is to be abandoned this year..."

Mr. Egan follows this statement with a description of football rallies of the past.

"The dormitories would be a mass of steady light, until finally the Harvard Band would form in front of University Hall. One by one those lights would go out. Now and again a student would be discovered who would rather have studied than have attended the rally, but the young man would be dragged out by the strong-arms to lend his unwilling voice to the parade that was to start.

"Down Massachusetts Avenue and through the Square it would stride, picking up disciples at every step. Past the Freshman Dormitories it would rollfe, with a carefree awing that caught the breath-taken Freshman in its surge.

"Up to the Union it would go, with a crashing crescendo that defied the Yard cops, defied forbidding old Sever defied President Lowell himself if said be, and into the living room it would pour, followed by a tidal wave of students..."

In Mr. Egan's narrative the football team then ascends the platform and receives the plaudits of the students.

"Apparently the spirit of old Harvard is not what it was. It is true that the Harvard football authorities themselves did away with the traditional football rally, but did so because in the past two years the Harvard Crimson, which is supposed to express undergraduate sentiment, has scoffed at the idea of undergraduate rallies on the eve of the Yale game...

"But I believe that the undergraduates of today in Cambridge lack the moral courage to back a losing eleven, or a series of losing elevens....

"Obviously the undergraduate body is not united, and it is my humble opinion that its lack of interest is not because of Harvard indifference, but because of lack of spirit on the part of the undergraduates.