If at First You Don't Succeed ...

To the Editors of the CRIMSON:

The Brown game football program lists the scores of forty-eight years of football between Harvard and Brown. Between 1893 and 1915, we played twenty-three games, won twenty-two and tied one. Brown took three consecutive defeats after World War I, five defeats in 1933-7, and seven defeats in 1940-1948; yet they never dropped Harvard from their schedule.

The spirit which says, "Keep trying until you win," is a lot more commendable that the theory of "avoid the impossible." Harvard's sportsmanship in dropping Holy Cross, Army, and Cornell from her schedule, is obviously not in the same class with Brown's through forty years of defeat. As for cancelling a scheduled game, nothing more disgusting has ever happened to Harvard. John W. Sears '52