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President Robert Maynard Hutchins of the University of Chicago, writing in today's issue of the Saturday Evening Post, claims that Harvard is giving a "bad example" to the country by holding pre-season football practice. He states that this evil is the result of having hard games at the...
Complaining that "in many American colleges it is possible for a boy to win-twelve letters without learning to write one," President Hutchins suggests that the best way to rid college football of overemphasis is to have a ten cent gate. He would also give athletic directors some kind of...
Hutchins commends a plan of former President Lowell to allow each sport only one game a season, and that one to be with the college's natural rival, as can be seen in England in the cases of Oxford and Cambridge. He declared: "Mr. Lowell's scheme might have the...
Athletics vs. "Athleticism" is the latest product of Chicago's President Hutchins, who may in turn be called either public-spirited or publicity-spirited, depending on one's views, "Athleticism," he says, "attracts boys and girls to college who do not want and cannot use a college education." And although...
Last year Pittsburgh had a sit-down strike against post-season games; this year its Freshman team was incensed at the lackadaisical manner in which their tuition was cared for. Now the college wants to go simon-pure. At Notre Dame an enterprising student recently issued a pronouncing gazeteer so...