Show Objectionable Enthusiasm NONE TONE can be more h heartily artily glad of the success of our football team on Thanksgiving day than we And none we believe have contributed more to their success than the CHRONICLE It ItIS Itis Itis is only fitting that they should succeed and we look forward confidently to the time when they will take and hold the championship of Utah and make for themselves an honorable place in the broader field of college athletics That these desirable ends may he be attained attained it is not only advisable but necessary that the boys be kept up to a high pitch of enthusiasm and that they be supported by the intense loyalty of all University of Utah students But as the CHRONICLE has often before pointed out there is a true and a false loyalty and both desirable and undesirable Of the latter kind we feel safe in saying was much of that manifested after last Thursdays Thursday's victory According to the testimony of some of the students themselves the q per per per- of the crowd that visited the Lyceum Theatre on Thanksgiving night would have disgraced a gang of cow cow- boys Indeed they can be compared only with similar performances of students ts in some of the larger universities universities universities ties of the East whose lawless lawles tendencies tendencies cies we had hoped would never extend west of the Rocky Mountains since we have enough lawlessness peculiarly our own The CHRONICLE wishes to be understood as unhesitatingly and unconditionally unconditionally unconditionally condemning the actions of those students who painted the town red last Thursday night They savor too much of sub-rational sub hoodlumism to be tolerated in an advanced com com- True such things are done by students of Eastern colleges but that makes them no whit the more excusable The managers and patrons of the Lyceum Theatre and all others who may have been annoyed by the 40 impositions of that irresponsible crowd had of course a perfect right to protection under the law and if the conduct of those students was as described there is li little ule doubt that they would have had recourse to police a authority except for a prevailing and foolish sentiment which makes it possible possible possible ble for students to do things which would be considered disgraceful and worthy of police interference if committed committed committed com com- by any other class Let us suppose suppose suppose sup sup- pose for the sake of illustration that during the progress of the regular work at the y the Y M. M C. C A. A team or some other should win a football game and that to vent their joy and display their loyalty to the association with which they are connected they should invade our halls and make such sucha a disturbance that our class recitations would have to be suspended would we not be justly indignant and would we not at once have the intruders expelled even though it required the aid of the police to accomplish it Yet according to their own account of it this is just what was done by the revellers last Thursday We are certain that none of the better better better bet bet- ter element of students took part in this affair and the better element are vastly in the majority we are more than ever certain that but few if any of those whose energy and pluck won last Thursdays Thursday's game took part in the senseless senseless senseless sense sense- less and disgraceful proceedings after-proceedings but we cannot therefore let the incident incident inci inci- dent den t pass unnoticed since we believe it to be a manifestation of a spirit which constitutes the greatest existing to the purity of college life and more indirectly to the welfare of society at large The CHRONICLE went on record last R year as being opposed to football as 4 the game is sometimes played by college students This year it more directly recognizes the good features of the i ia t AV game but does not in the least withdraw withdraw with with- draw its condemnation of the brutality and other evils that sometimes accompany accompany accompany pany it It also wishes to go on record as favoring and promoting legitimate college spirit and loyalty but will aim always to distinguish between the true and the false even at the risk of being 6 71 misunderstood by the unthinking i With this in view this criticism J is given and we sincerely hope that it r will be the last which will be necessary necessary t ILI ILIon r ron on this subject I- I |