SCHOOL SPIRIT

Otterbein has always prided herself, and rightly so, on the genuineness of her college spirit. It has seldom been said that any athletic team or any phase of college activity lacked enthusiastic support fro,m the student body.

However there is a certain thoughtless class of students who seem to miss the real significance of college spirit. To their notion it consists of nothing more nor less than a blare of noise, a wild demonstration at the game and then, if the team doesn't win, an all-absorbing grouch that usually serves to keep their little hammers busy and their otherwise unoccupied minds entertained for an indefinite period of time. They fail to understand that loyalty to the school is the very essence of college spirit and that onty a traitor would be guilty of adding a knock to the already heavy burdens that must be borne.

Of course it is easy to criticise when the scores are against our team. Some of our garrulous wiseacres know just what ought to be done. They would have a championship team within a week if only they were doing things. They overlook the rather important fact that Otterbein is playing the hardest schedule in her history with the nucleus of last year's team gone and with all new material ineligible to play. And of course they can point out plenty of things that they are perfectly sure will never do and should not be so. It is to be regretted that the college has made the fatal mistake of not securing some of the individuals to direct her athletic work but since it has not seen fit to hire them for the job wouldn't it be just as well to let those in charge worry along without the extra advice?

Let's "Snap out" of this fake loyalty and show a little real college spirit. And above all if we don't know the difference between a free throw and a field goal let's not show ourselves up by attempting to explain to a suffering public how things ought to be run.