OUT BRIEF CANDLE

Her name is Ophelia, if anyone wants to know. She is a Great Dane. With this the factual matter available about Ophelia, that can be printed, ends. Saturday's playful exposition of a mood, arranged, it is to be supposed, by one or those who love football, the spectacle, ought likewise to end--if he is at all psycho-receptive,--the appearances of Ophelia. The appearance of a valued member of the Harvard staff putting on the dog in a public place, when it is still a month to his annual act at the Yale rally, is not alone an anachronism. Besides violating an evasive thing called "good taste", it is a fundamental error in showmanship, in which some one higher up, not the member, is blameworthy.

Perhaps a cartoonist can defeat a college. The Yale game may see the names of Harvard and Ophelia joined against the more characteristic symbol of New Haven. But if Ophelia makes a second appearance at the Dartmouth game it will be on account of a misunderstanding between her manager and the great, contented, mascotless majority of students. It is not alone long association of Ophelia, the River, and that Sinking Feeling that is prejudicial to Ophelia's future. It is rather that one simply must be educated to changes like this.