Word: scholarship
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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After a thorough investigation the CRIMSON has found that the position of the Faculty is based upon no specific injuries to scholarship by intercollegiate athletics, but upon the general feeling ("vague generalities" being objected to) that the undergraduate mind is too pre-occupied, too prone to dwell upon punts, hurdles, and three-base hits, instead of upon problems of social ethics...
...interests of the University have been impaired by intercollegiate athletics. It may then be possible to justify the Athletic Committee in the eyes of the Faculty in rejecting the proposition now under consideration, and to prove that curtailment will not have the desired effect of raising the standard of scholarship. The various abuses of scholarly interests can then be taken up, and the actual results upon them of athletic curtailment considered point by point...
Such statistics must be procurable. We cannot imagine that the Faculty is working altogether on vague generalities. If possible, the CRIMSON will procure them for publication, in order that every man may come to a just conclusion on whether athletic restriction will lead to better scholarship, or only to occupations by far less desirable...
...scholarly interests of which it has charge." In order to show that curtailment of athletics will not improve the scholarly interests, that athletic idleness will not be conducive to more study, we must know in just what respect the interests are now affected. Is the standard of scholarship lower than before athletics became so general? Are the athletes failing to comply with the requirements of the Office? Are their records below the general average? Is attendance at lectures, both by competitors and spectators, affected by athletics? Are marks lower during football and baseball season than during the winter months...
...fallacy to imagine that, by a total abolition of intercollegiate contests for a period of five months, the standards of scholarship will be raised. It is an obvious fact that men playing on teams have more incentive to keep off probation than others...