BASKETBALL BEGINS TODAY

The basketball squad gets down to business this afternoon when formal practice takes the place of the informal workouts, which have been none too well attended. Attendance of any sort, however, during the week of the Yale football game is not normal. Nothing could initiate the opening of the new minor sport with better taste than the glorious victory at New Haven.

Harvard men are unable to appreciate the position that basketball holds in most colleges. Perhaps the best evidence of the rough road ahead of the Crimson five is the fact that at Yale and Princeton the court game has for years led hockey as the most popular minor sport. That means hard work for Harvard. If the University stands back of Coach Wachter with anything like major sport enthusiasm it can trust him to build up from the bottom a team and a tradition that shall live up to the example set by the football men last Saturday.