Though "rah-rah-ism" is contemptuously viewed as a thing of the past at Yale, we must take caution lest we completely strip from our college life something of the past that is still vital and of value. We point with pride to the passage of mushy sentimentalism, yet there are very few of us who do not feel the same loyalty to Yale that our fathers and predecessors felt.

What might lead one to believe this spirit is passing, or will pass in the future is the external factor of the new colleges. But a more noticeable and internal evidence of a change in spirit, or lack of expression of it, is the apparent passing of the singing of Yale songs, and the paucity of new, original compositions.

It was most startling when in a gathering of all classes at the Pierson-Trumbull debate the piano struck up "Bright College Years" to hear painfully weak humming and mumbling and to see embarrassed glances at one's neighbor. This is increasingly true in every gathering at which the grand anthem of Yale is begun. Can't we out of respect to our traditions and past glories learn this simple tune and its significant words? Many do not even realize that the words "For God, for Country, and for Yale" originated here.

Though these exhortations for a sentimental revival may smack of preparatory school editorial propaganda, it is a deplorably true and serious commentary on our present mode of college life. Purchase of a Yale song Book ought to prove a worthy investment.

Those fond of old songs and customs have one last hope for a revival of the old days, i.e., the return of beer and ale which may engender a new congeniality unknown to our generation. Our over-sophisticated "veneer" may be washed away by libations of "brown October ale," and the imbibition of the cup that cheers. Bring on "Handsome Dan," turtle-neck Y-sweaters, peg top trousers, bicycles, mustaches, and "Bright College Years" once more. The Yale News.