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Levelling sharp criticism at student spirit, Charles H. Morin '43, head cheerleader, last night came forth in rebuttal against certain student opinion which lay blame for the weak Dartmouth game yelling directly at the feet of the megaphone...
While contending that these opinions were not representative of the student body as a whole, Morin admitted that there might have been more cheers led, but said that the failure of the cheerleaders was due in great part to the apathy of the cheering sections. Saying that "we have to have good cheers, or none at all." Morin declared that in the second half of the Dartmouth game it was almost impossible to raise a decent cheer from the stands...
Another cheerleader backed Morin on this point. William E. Drucker '43 said that "only when the stands feel the team is on the march will they cheer." Furthermore scattered calls for cheers can not be answered, since the rest of the stands are usually apathetic...
According to Morin, the most discouraging exhibition at last Saturday's game was given by the numerous students in the cheering sections who get up and left before "Fair Harvard" had been sung. Describing the mass exodus as a "damn shame" he said that it was a good index of the torpid condition of the school's spirit...
...Morin and Harlow plan to have two or three more rallies, with the Princeton game the occasion for one of them, and the Army or Brown contests, or both, pulling students into the courtyard in front of the Varsity Club...