Football Mass Meetings in Stadium.

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To the Editors of the CRIMSON:

No one will deny that the object of mass meetings is to encourage a team and to show its members that the University is behind it, and this object is decidedly a good one. If this is granted as the object, why not hold our mass meetings in the Stadium during practice, thus bringing it forcibly before the members of the team that the College is with them. Every fellow who was on last year's squad will never forget that great show of spirit in the Stadium on the last day of practice last year, when about 800 men turned out, notwithstanding the downpour of rain. If we could have two or three meetings a week in the Stadium at which songs and cheers were practiced, and as many fellows down to watch practice on other days as possible, it seems to me that more would be accomplished in the way of encouragement than by holding twice as many meetings in the Union. 1909.