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...current Nation ("radical" weekly), one Clarence E. Cason, sometime University of Wisconsin rhetoric pedagog, tells the woeful tale of Jeff Burrus, "the university's best electric signboard," Phi Beta Kappa member, Junior Prom chairman, footballer, crew captain. Pedagog Cason said that Paragon Burrus suffered a nervous breakdown from his wide participation in college affairs. Winning a Rhodes scholarship, he went abroad, suffered another breakdown. "Out of his experience has come the conviction that college athletics used him rather shabbily. . . . His picture tends to show conclusively that a football player has no time or thought to give to anything...
...people are taxpayers," protested Colored Alderman William Burrus. "They have a right to as good an education as anyone. You are setting an awful example by yielding to these striking students. . . . These young people are taking the law into their own hands...
Jefferson D. Burrus is a Senior at the University of Wisconsin. For three years he has played football at end for his university, and this year captains the Wisconsin crew. Moreover he has recently been elected Rhodes Scholar from the State of Wisconsin, which conveys the impression that his scholarly achievements approach his athletic record in excellence. Backed by the Wisconsin Union, Burrus writes on "The Present Intercollegiate Athletic System". After an exhaustive study of the situation he writes, "I have tried to present what I believe is the predominate attitude toward college athletics of four closely interested classes...
Going ahead logically to point out a remedy for each fault enumerated, Burrus makes the following suggestions as steps to cure the specific evils: (1) Replace Freshman and Sophomore gymnasium with two years of compulsory sports. (2) Limit intercollegiate competition to Juniors and Seniors or to Sophomores and Juniors. (3) Limit each sport to its season. (4) Limit daily practice for each sport. (5) Limit each student to participation in one intercollegiate sport, or prohibition of participation in successive sports. (6) Give students and faculty greater control of athletics...
...perhaps too early to predict any results to come out of the Burrus survey. The law on diminishing utility seems to work in the world of athletic panaceas and to date this report which parallels in some ways the plan proposed recently by President Hopkins of Dartmouth, has failed to stir up the looked for storm of discussion. And yet the suggestions are sound, the changes practical in the extreme. Now that the excitement and novelty of the first cries for athletic reform in the colleges has died down, the general attitude seems to be one of mild approval...