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...final contest between the Whig and Clio Halls to determine who should represent Princeton in the intercollegiate debate with Yale at New Haven on May 1, was held last evening. The following-named were chosen as debaters: W. F. Burns '95 of Evanston, III.; B. M. Hirshfield '95 of Steubenville, O., and R. N. McElroy '96 of Lees Summit, Mo., while Albert Hayes '95 and F. L. Lewis '95 were chosen as alternates...
JOHN A. FAIRLIE and WM. B. WOLFFE.Best general references: Report on Athletics by Committee of the Faculty of Harvard University (1888); F. W. Taussig and R. W. Emmons in Harvard Graduates' Magazine, III, 305, 318 (March 1895); A. B. Hart: Studies in American Education, No. vi; N. S. Shaler in Atlantic Monthly, LXIII, 79 (Jan., 1889). E. L. Richards in Pop. Sci. Mo., XLV, 721 (Oct. 1894); Walter Camp in Century, XLVI, 204 (June, 1893); Nineteenth Century, XXXIV, 899 (Dec. 1893); Forum, XVI, 634 (Jan., 1894); Lippincott's Magazine, XXXIX, 1008 (June...
...III. Intercollegiate contests are advantageous. - (a) A stimulus to general participation. - (b) They develop college patriotism. - (c) They bring the colleges into closer relations with each other...
...III. Intercollegiate football is injurious to the students at large. - (a) Waste of time watching games. - (b) Injury to health watching games. - (x) Dampness and cold. - (c) Hysterical excitement at periods of the great games. - (d) Dulls sense of honor. - (x) Little meannesses condoned for the sake of victory. - (e) Dulls feelings. - (f) Establishes false ideals...
...Intercollegiate football is injurious to the colleges. - (a) Harmful to the students. (See II and III). - (b) Affects the proper flow of pupils to the college. - (x) Many choose a college for its athletic record rather than for its real advantages. - (c) Gives preparatory pupils a false ideal of the purpose of a college, thus encouraging the development of athletic instead of intellectual ability. - (d) Represents colleges to the community as places of leisure and training schools for athletes, instead of centres of learning...