Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Haven, Conn., Oct. 25--Head Coach Stevens of the Yale football team, interviewed here yesterday on the Carnegie report on athletics, said, "Heaven knows I wish a few more athletes would come to Yale, and I'm sure we haven't been going out and signing them...
...usual during the season when football monopolizes the sports columns, the editors of the rest of the paper find every bit of information about colleges particularly appetizing. In this vicinity especially, the front pages went quite berserk over the meat furnished by yesterday's Carnegie Foundation report. To be sure, the columnists and editorial writers generally concurred in the what-of-it attitude merited by much of this report of conditions prevalent months or years ago; but the treatment as news is, after all, what makes the impression of the story, and even conservative papers badly exaggerated its significance...
...Carnegie report was of intercollegiate and, to a certain extent, of public importance. Two other items played up during the past week were not. The three-column "Stunt Riot at Harvard" headline of a Boston paper last Thursday led a story that deliberately over-emphasized one incident of the initiations until there appeared to be a race-riot seething under the surface at Harvard Square. The bold-face story on "Kindergarten Treatment" in another paper yesterday related a mild disciplinary action such as has often occurred in English 2, and is utterly without importance outside of the classroom. Thus...
...searchlights of publicity. The extraordinary organization of college athletics, the amounts of money involved, and the quasi-public character of modern college games have given rise to a complicated machinery of control which would have never been necessary had athletics enjoyed a less prominent position in education. The exhaustive report of the Carnegie Foundation is but another monument to the complexity of the amateur problem...
...report shows, Harvard has been in general, very successful in eliminating the evils usually attendant upon college sport. Certainly the H. A. A. has made a continuous and sincere effort to keep Harvard athletics in line with the written and unwritten principles of the amateur spirit. The fact that it was the officials of the H. A. A. who were responsible for bringing to the attention of the investigators the one feature of their policy which failed to pass musier is ample proof of the eagerness of these men to put Harvard athletics in the cleanest possible condition...