Harvard's Victory

In Harvard's triumph over Oregon in the football game of yesterday, great credit is due the players who journeyed across the continent to uphold the title of the East to football supremacy. The contest was indeed one between the East and the West. And the victory of Harvard brings satisfaction, not alone to the students and the graduates of that institution, but to all those who have studied in the colleges and universities of the East. The satisfaction at the victory won is made even greater by the knowledge, shown by the score, that the Oregon team put up a magnificent game and worthily represented the reputation of the Pacific coast.

Credit also is due the initiative and enterprise of the students at Harvard which made possible the trip to Pasadena. Of undisputed value was yesterday's game in the promotion of the things which make life in the United States worth while. Both teams were wached by an army of enthusiastic partisans who, because they so earnestly wished for the victory of their chosen team, became thereby better Americans and better citizens. The contest was intersectional. But deeper than the spirit of sectionalism was devotion to the nation, the feeling of national pride which gives to sectionalism its worth as a factor in the national life. The Pasadena game brought the East and the West closer together, and made each know the other better than it had before. May the good feeling which it has aroused between the Atlantic and Pacific seaboards prove an earnest of other intersectional contests in the future. -Boston Transcript