"Most Discourteous"

To the Editor of the CRIMSON:

The Holy Cross band did a fine and courteous thing in playing a Harvard tune first, and then when the Harvard band played and the general expectation was that they would be equally courteous, they not merely failed to play a Holy Cross tune, but played and Harvard sand--a Harvard-Yale football song.

Was not this most discourteous". Was it not in effect, saying to them. "The outcome of this game is not of great importance to us anyway, it is only the Harvard-Yale game about which we care"?

I think it is a fact--a regrettable fact that around Boston the majority of people are against Harvard, and I find in talking with a number of them it is because they think Harvard is "stuck up", and such an incident as this lends color to that thought.

Cannot our band extend to every team against whom we play the courtesy of playing their song first, and cannot we use general phrases in our football songs instead of just singing about Yale when we are actually playing someone else?

I regret seeing my College beaten in football, but much more I regret what seems to me grave discourtesy on the part of my College. Intercollegiate sports should promote fine feeling and every possible courtesy. Delcevare King '95.