Co-ex

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To the Editor of the CRIMSON:

Without any desire to drag in by the heels a post mortem subject, I believe a fact ascertained and verified by myself at New Haven retains enough quickness in it to justify a comment. This has to do with the number of men assembling at the first football rally at Yale on Wednesday night. They were counted up by three different witnesses as less than a hundred.

In view of the wit and alert psychological analysis dissipated by Boston newspaper columnists on the falling off in attendance at football mass meetings at Harvard, this kindred slump among the Elis must be regarded as a direct refutation of any explaining cause except that of a saner adjustment of athletic interest in both colleges. It is regrettable that Yale has encroached upon the portion of distaste for crowd hysteria lately and solely possessed by the ten thousand men. But it has done so and what barbs are thrown in the future must be received upon the joined bucklers of the two elder Universities. R. K. Safford, Jr. '31