New-York tribune., 1921-05-25
By
Heywood Broun

equally tasteful to Yale appetite.
And only one season is needed to make
1t completely palatablp. But stfsng-
est of all is Harvard pride in a foot
ball victory. Is 1t possible that all
along the highest aiqi Of Harvard is
to be able TO ssy that she has out
Vailed Yale7 Yale is willing TO CON
tinae an example for Harvard to fol
low"
$50 the ELS restrained themselves
from falling for your underhand attack
upon our virgin trsditions?" writes
Elihu. well donei Having read in
Vanity Fair the wheese about calling
our yard campus, was bit sur
prised to see 1t dragged gasping into
your sbortive effort to laugh off the
scores Of the Yale-Harvard games in
Coy's time. Still, am glad you like
it.
"But what I started to say is: I'll
bet copy of The Big Year-proper-
ly censored--that you have knocked
the chips off scores of Princeton
clavicles by your mastery comment Of
even date. If you don't get more cries
of outraged virtue from that than you
did from New Haven's ex-top-spinners,
will will-weIl, certainly will!
"You have made the Tiger roar.
Gaudeamus igitur. (You will pardon
these classical illusions. They keep
cropping out in the work of ali us
Yale men,
81 address you on the subject of
football at the, Big Three writes
Arthur Robinson, with the same air
of authority with which Frank O'Ma1-
ley, retired and wealthy newspaper
man, greeted group of New York re-
pogters at the Yale-Princeton game
last fall. I, too, used to be one of you
newspaper fellers, and wrote football
for the papers.
"As a Harvard man you have doubt
less noticed that Burt L. Standish sent
both Frank and Dick Merriwell to Yale
and chat the writer's of to-day have al
lowed Yale and Princeton to share
equally in the crop of heroes. Why is
it that they have sighted your alma
mater?
81 concede, of course, that Harvard
has done quite we'll in recent years
without the aid of heroes. It has been
exactly twenty-five years since Prince
ton beat Harvard at Cambridge and
something like ten years since Yale
scored decisive victory over Har-
ward.
"The records show a succession of
victories for Yale over Harvard and
Princeton while Frank Merriwell was
at New Haven. Then, when it seemed
that Harvard might win a game, Dick
Mereriwell came along, and after him
Corliss. Writers of fiction then sent
their heroes alternately to Yale and
Princeton and continued to ignore
Harvard.
at seems to me that this is cir
cumstance which delegates to the an
nual convention of the National Col
legiate Association ought to invcsti-
gate when they meet at the Astor next
December. Can it be that Yale end
Princeton offer irresistible induce
ments to potential heroes of fiction
when they are in prep school, or, if
you will pardon the suggestion, is this
singular state of affairs due to the
fact that writer's searching for local
color at Cambridge are blinded by the
Crimson of Harvard?
"Yale and Princeton, you know, num-
ber their players. Can it be that
writer's of fiction, like football re-
porters, find it impossible to identify
Harvard's heroes? 1t seems to me
that Harvard ought to recognize the
rights of the novel reading public. +
not those of the reporters and foot
ball fans"