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...independent income, but complete lack of discrimination between the sexes in athletics seems to go too far. The Greeks, who were extremely wise in many respects, were quite rigid on this point. Any woman who even watched the Olympic Games was automatically executed. When the Romans reversed that edict, women apparently became great sports fans and were fond of spectacles such as gladiator fights and chariot races. The illusion of a tender sex has been completely shattered in modern times by the blossoming of female athletes in numerous sports. But up to this time, with the minor exceptions of mixed...
...case. What MacArthur didn't settle, and what both the AAU and the NCAA have refused to face, is a recent ruling by the International Olympic Committee declaring all athletes suported by athletic scholarships or state money ineligible. This will undoubtedly affect the Iron Curtain country teams, but the edict may be most damaging to the U.S. Most college athletes have athletic scholarships, and the ruling quite plainly eliminates armed services personnel...
...centralization began early and drew the first critical fire. When, in January 1961, Kennedy edited a speech by the Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral Arleigh Burke, and directed all other military brass to submit to the same treatment, the press emitted loud cries of censorship. But though the Kennedy edict certainly frustrated loose talk from the Pentagon, its effect has not been altogether negative. The din of senselessness and longstanding interservice quarrels no longer reaches the public...
...academic fairway proved full of traps. The school's dean ruled that because the U.S. Open champ was committed to three weeks of golfing exhibitions during the fall term, he must cancel them or withdraw; his instructors felt that he "could not miss that much class time." The edict riled Nicklaus. an insurance major with average grades. "I don't like to be told I can't go to school," he said. "I've missed classes to play golf every quarter I've been at Ohio State, and I feel I could meet my commitments...
...both of Senator Barry Goldwater, who "typifies what this school stands for: individuality and self-responsibility." On Fuller's desk is Goldwater's The Conscience of a Conservative, from which Fuller fondly quotes: "We must recapture the lost art of learning." Fuller denounces John Dewey's edict that children can best be taught by getting them interested. He insists that children must be "led out of darkness" by a disciplined "Christian" approach to "reason," and all the students are either Roman Catholics or Protestants, about half from church-going families. Only two Jewish children have applied. Fuller...