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1897,
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THAT GAME.
It may be possible for Yale only to be
joyous over the game of last Saturday,
but it is hard to discriminate in offering
congratulations to the contesting teams.
Other things being equal, Yale should
have won, and the persistent fight of
Princeton against a heavily adverse
score at the very start was thoroughly
characteristic of the spirit of Nassau
and makes one of that College’s best
records. On the other hand, Yale made
that nice lead by excellent and sturdy
batting, such as delights the soul, and
then, having lost that lead, and, by all
human calculations the game, recovered
both by just the kind of thing that
glorifies athletics—if we may speak in
the spirit of Saturday afternoon—and
makes these College contests the finest
sport that is offered a sport-loving people
from one year’s end to another. Mr.
Keator and his men must be reasonably
sure of the congratulations of this Uni-
versity. Let us take pains to assure Mr.
Wilson and his coadjutors that we have
feelings of most respectful admiration
for them. We believe them fully good
enough for all the purposes of whole-
some and exciting sport.
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CRIBBING.
To our mind the strongest point about
the paper from Mr. Clark, published
last week, is his call for recognition of
the evil of cheating. It is not possible
for us to see how anything of this
sort can be treated in any other way
than by directly facing it and admit-
ting its presence. There seems to be
more or less of a tendency here, among
those who recognize that cheating is
cheating, to avoid admitting that there
is enough of it to take any decided
Steps to eradicate it. Just so long as
it is at all hushed up, so long will such
action on the part of the Faculty be
construed as winking at the theory,
which some students actually seriously.
hold, that it is a justifiable weapon in
correspondence shouid be addressed, Yale
ent from baseball.
YALE ALU Maat
the warfare between the students and
instructors. It is true that the punish-
ment is quite severe when one is detect-
ed in the act, but is not severe enough,
nor is the effect of it on the rest of the
community marked enough for the pur-
pose of discipline.
Some time ago the Weekly printed
the report of Dean Briggs of Harvard
on the means taken there to eliminate
this evil, a report which was very thor-
ough and demonstrated, more clearly
than we have seen elsewhere, the curse
of the double standard of honor. It is
not naturali for college students to do
anything which is esssentially dishon-
est, and once the real nature of this
practice is admitted, the same stand-
ard may be looked for in the relations
of the student and Faculty as now ex-
ists between student and student. It
is better to err on the safe side. The
training which college gives should send
a young man into the world with a
finer and stronger sense of honor than
is usually met among men. The Lord
knows that the pressure which will
come on him in almost any relation in
life to make that standard flexible will
be strong enough to require the most
nearly impregnable armor that educa-~
tion can give.
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AS TO CHEERING.
In thecomfortableness ofthe -occasion,
itis less unpleasant to consider some
ways in which we might be still more
comfortable, even when home runs do
not come so opportunely
There is too much cheering at our
athletic contests. Nobody wants to dis-
courage enthusiasm; no one has, right-
ly, any regard for-throats. A college
or university that doesn’t back up its
teams does not deserve to win. But
there is plenty of opportunity for cheer-
ing which simply nerves the side for
which the support is given, and which
not only does not seek to rattle the op-
ponents, but avoids the danger of doing”
so. Cheering a baseball game offers the
most ideal illustration. The more of
it the better while the teams come on
the field and while they are practicing
for the game. As much of it as you
please, aS a correspondent says else-
where, while the sides are changing
petween the innings. The more that
comes out spontaneously in apprecia-
tion of an earned score by your team or
a good play, the better. But cheering
while the play is in progress is out
of order. You cannot draw the line and
say it is simply meant to support your
team. If the numbers in support of
one team predominate, as they always
do, in favor of the home team, the
fact is, and it can’t be avoided, that
the support of the team is always an
attack upon the opposing team, an at-
tack upon their nerve and spirit just at
a time when everything depends upon
the condition of the player’s nerve.
In the case of a game on neutral
ground, when things are about equal,
the cheering of one offsets the other.
This is almost always the case in large
football games. But that is very differ~
The work is so fast
and the men are so absorbed and taken
up in their struggle that the opposing
roarings count for little. And it is true
that, at a contest in baseball, for in-
stance, on neutral grounds, the sup-
porters on each side are apt to be in
equal numbers and one does about as
well as the other in noise. But then the
result is that the lungs of one offset the
lungs of the other, and no advantage
comes to either side, while the fine
points of the game are undoubtedly in-
terfered with.
Of coursé, it is a great thing for a
player to pass through such fiery fur-
naces as those into which he is nowa-
days cast. If his nervous system is not
singed and he keeps a fairly intelligent
idea of his own whereabouts, he proves
himself of rare metal. But the contest
is a severe enough one under any cir-
cumstances, and a point not to be for-
gotten.is that you want the conditions
of the game just as fair as possible, to
the end that you may get the most
WHE KLY
skillful and plucky work on both sides
and that the best team may win. There
has been a vast improvement in the
way cheering is done, but it still tends
to the idea of rattling rather than
purely encouraging, and, in so far, is
bad.
It is especially to be desired that the
Supporters of the home team should do
everything in their power to give the
visiting team the best opportunities to
show what they can do. It is a great
deal better to err on the side of a hos-
pitable repression of one’s feeling than
to take an unfair advantage. We do
not think the spirit of the cheering on
Saturday was in any sense unfair, but
the practical effect of all that continu-
ous work (which is carried on as much
by the supporters of one as by the
other) is in the wrong direction, and
on a wrong principle.
The singing of a certain class of bat-
tle songs by the supporters of the home
team is not exactly in the line of the
highest spirit of intercollegiate chival-
ry. It is a very questionable view of
collegiate courtesy. Bingo and the pae-
an which indicates the purpose of
twisting the tiger’s tail, are both very
pleasant means of letting off one’s feel-
ings on some occasions, but they are
not appropriate at an intercollegiate
match where Yale is the host.
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Cambridge University, in its recent
lively times on the occasion of voting
on the question of woman’s degrees
had a taste of the pleasure of seeing it-
self figure in the newspaper fiction of
the day. Theré are just those creatures
in England, evidently, there are in
this country—those who live by writing
and printing large lies. Yale enjoys
their attention occasionally. The Cam-
bridge Review is very meek about it.
thus: |
“It is doubtless owing to the misfor-
tune of being pent up within the nar-
row bounds of academic life that we
suffer from an obsolete prejudice in fa-
vor of preserving some relation between
a narrative and the facts on which it is
presumably based. The correspondents
of the London papers, who honored us
on Friday last, are to be congratulated
on broader views of the nature of evi-
dence. Yet even in the search for pic-
turesque detail.and yet more laudable
aim of suggesting evil of one’s oppon-
ents, it should be possible to write an
account of things that happened with-
out conveying quite erroneous impres-
sions. The short narrative in the Times
was admirable, and the Standard
showed that it is possible to describe
the victory of one’s adversaries without
misstatements or misleading insinua-
tions. But the Standard, though it was
on the side of the angels, had, like our-
selves, some taint of the truth-lover.
Other accounts were more spirited.”
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The undergraduates of Yale are more
than even in favor of making a four-
year course for “Sheff.” Think of that
home run in the tenth if you doubt it.
Think of a few other men who do
things on the diamond and the water
and the football field. Five or six
would doubtless be voted better than
three.
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