All day yesterday every one could think of little except the brilliant game which Harvard won. Men passed one another with smiles on their faces and near neighbors could not help shaking hands. No one about Cambridge can remember such a day and we have no record of a like. At first sight, all this enthusiasm about a mere foot ball game seems the height of absurdity, and we have no doubt that our actions will be criticised severely by outsiders. But if looked at below the surface, the result of Saturday's game means more than the ordinary athletic victory. It means that Harvard has stuck to the work of beating Yale all these years with a grim determination, that in the face of defeat after defeat Harvard has always started in again with renewed energy, and finally has been successful. There is every reason, including a moral reason, why Harvard should be jubilant now that Yale is beaten.
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