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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...
Harvard was not the first to send an athletic representation across the continent for the encouragement of intersectional athletics. But she does hold the honor of being the first to prove that a college eleven can make such a trip, and, with a reasonably short training period, play a winning game against a skilful and determined opponent. The value of such an exposition is great. It has ever been the aim of Americans to further the broadening of national thought by breaking down the barriers of provincialism. The New Year's Day game proved conclusively the solidifying effect that intercollegiate...