At present in the doldrums of a four game losing streak, the Crimson basketball team should hit on all five cylinders when it meets the second-place Cornell quintet at Ithaca in a game scheduled for 8:15 o'clock tonight.

The Harvard team will not only be seeking revenge for its earlier season loss to the same Cornell squad on the floor of the Indoor Athletic Building, but it will also be trying to repeat what last year's team succeeded in doing by virtue of its two victories over the Big Red, that is, keep Cornell out of first place in the league standings.

A win for the Crimson tonight will lift the team out of sixth place and move them into fifth.

A sad blow was dealt to Harvard hopes for the rest of the season with the announcement yesterday that Joe Romano, sparkling Senior forward, will be out for the remainder of the season.

Ed Buckley, who showed signs of returning to his old form in the Princeton game Saturday, will again hold down a forward berth along with Chick Lutz, while Bunks Burditt will be back at his familiar center position. Captain Bud Finegan and Don Lutze will probably start at the guard posts.

The other players going with the team, which left last night at 11 o'clock, are Bill Webber, George Dillon, Art Scully, Ed Rothschild, and Hugh Hyde.