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...opening exercises of the term, President McCosh, of Princeton College, took occasion to deliver a long harangue against athletic sports as at present practiced in colleges. The good doctor asserted that an undue amount of attention was paid to athletic sports as compared with the proper studies of the course, and that a reform in this particular was earnestly to be desired. He, therefore, urgently requested that less attention be paid to outdoor sports and more to books. Dr. McCosh, like his learned brother the Rev. Howard Crosby does not believe in developing the muscles as well as the brain...
While Dr. McCosh, president of Princeton, argues for more study and less athletics, Dr. Eliot, president of Harvard, remarks: "It is agreed on all hands that the increased attention given to physical exercise and athletic sports within the past twenty-five years has been on the whole of great advantage to the university, and that the average physique of the mass of the students has been sensibly improved." Harvard certainly turns out as good scholars as Princeton, and its students are better disciplined. President Eliot's views are sounder than those of President McCosh...
...opening of the winter term of Princeton College Wednesday, President McCosh called special attention to the "excessive interest in athletic sports" now shown in American colleges, and advised its repression...
Presidents Porter of Yale, McCosh of Princeton, and Seelye of Amherst, will lecture before the Concord School of Philosophy next year...
Since 1868, when Dr. McCosh became its president, Princeton College has received $2,500,000 in donations of various kinds...