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Yesterday's CRIMSON quotes an extract from a recent number of the Yale News, which sets fourth in definite terms the attitude of Yale University towards the nuisance of continued cheering. The CRIMSON takes the same view of the subject. It is hard to realize how two publications like the CRIMSON and the Yale News, voicing as they to the sentiments of their respective undergraduate bodies, have forgotten to make any mention of the fact that cheering is not so much due to an effort on the part of the spectators alone to "rattle" the opposing side...
...view of the current discussion as to whether the best interests of higher technical education in and near Boston would be better served by an alliance of Harvard University with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, or by the separate maintenance of the two institutions, the following extract from Mr. Gordon McKay's will is of interest as showing the liberal and thorough-going provision for technical education which the Harvard Corporation will be obliged to make, enjoying for that purpose an income possibly equal to one third of the present income from the entire invested funds of Harvard University...
...CRIMSON in an editorial asks The Daily Princetonian to tell Princeton's view in regard to systematic attempts to berattle athletic opponents and to tell how far the belief is true that Princeton has tried to do this...' By 'systematic attempts to berattle opponents,' we judge is meant the 'continued cheering and organized noise-making' mentioned in the same editorial. Without entering here upon a lengthy discussion of cheering from the standpoint of the welfare of sport, we will say that cheering is a recognized means of supporting a team in the field; that by this means support is given...
There must necessarily be two points of view from which the value of organized cheering at public games is to be judged, from the players' point of view and from that of the audience. As to the point of view of the audience it is, perhaps, not worth while to offer an opinion. To them the organized cheering is inspiring to hear but often a nuisance when they feel obliged to participate. Probably, on the whole, however, for the spectators the organized cheering has a distinct element of enjoyment and greatly stimulates their enthusiasm...
...from the players' and coaches' point of view I have never much believed in the value of organized cheering. In the first place, any player knows that he never hears any cheering except when it interferes with his hearing something else that he wants to hear. Whether or not it has a subconscious inspiring effect is perhaps difficult to say, but I do not think that any team with the proper spirit and properly trained would ever care as to how the spectators were treating them while they were on the field. Before the contest begins and during the time...