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 advantages to the players it is supposed to encourage are usually negligible. The modern cheer leader can scarcely any longer be looked upon as an interpreter and a director of the real feeling of the crowd on the bleachers; he is in small if in any degree an inspirer of college spirit; he is the clown at the athletic circus who too often attracts to himself the attention which should be given to the main show. Such demonstrations have little to do with real college spirit. Nor can many of the things to which I have so far referred be seriously considered as either encouraging or revealing a love for the college or a respect for its good name; they provide means for the expression of youthful enthusiasm; they are an outlet—and sometimes a quite harmless one—for exuberant animal spirits, but they show, if at all, certainly in a very small degree, and in an extremely crude way, a real love and appreciation of the student's alma mater. There are other ways of revealing college spirit.

The man with real regard for the college will have respect for her good name; he will come in time to recognize the fact that wherever he goes he carries with him the reputation of the institution of which he is or has been a member, and that people who meet him judge of its character by his own, just as one reflects credit or discredit upon one's father and mother and all the members of