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College men are very much interested in intercollegiate athletics, which give them an outlet for superfluous energy, that in no event would be expended on studies. Without them the undergraduates would take part in intercollegiate athletics to a certain extent; possibly somewhat more than at present. But this form of amusement could never occupy the spare time of all the students as intercollegiate athletics now do. Instead of watching games in the open air many undergraduates would fritter away their time in card-playing, theatre-going, and in vicious forms of dissipation...
...intercollegiate contests in all the winter sports. Throughout the year we have taken up in detail the many and varied arguments in favor of intercollegiate sport: its power in holding the undergraduate community together, its good effects upon the participants both morally and physically, its power as an outlet for the energy that in any event would not be expended on studies, its supplement intercollegiate athletics, and lastly the rising undergraduate sentiment against the abuse of athletic privileges. We therefore believe that any athletic reductions are at present unwise and uncalled for, and that in the long run the Committee...
Princeton relied on statistics of physical injuries, and assertions of mental and ethical harm. Harvard refuted with the testimony of old football players given in the two most authoritative investigations, and emphasized the importance of a clean outlet for surplus animal spirits, the executive ability to "do" things, and the striving toward an ideal...
...other undergraduate activity, a clean and whole-some interest for the student, giving rise to a pure atmosphere in college life that would otherwise be lacking. We contend that as a consequence of the presence of this institution there is created more than from any other cause a wholesome outlet for the surplus energy of the student; that it has completely solved that problem which has harassed faculties since American colleges began. In the second place we contend that this intercollegiate game develops individual efficiency--that it teaches a man to undertake great things and carry them through to success...
...return to the first point. In the days when our grandfathers were undergraduates it was a well-night insolvable problem in the administration of our colleges how to provide a wholesome outlet for the surplus energy of the vigorous young student. In Europe today the student whiles away his idle hours in drinking and duelling bouts, while even in England riots between town and gown are frequent occurrences. The overflow of student vigor in America has formerly taken the form of such college pranks as ragging of signs, gate lifting, and hazing. Those disorders have now practically disappeared from American...