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That student conference at Wesleyan University, culminating in proposals for the reform of football, recalls an issue which has been discussed for a full decade. Do athletics, especially intercollegiate athletics, promote or hinder the cause of education? President W. T. Foster of the Reed College at Portland, Oregon, has been one of the most outspoken in condemnation of what he calls "exaggerated emphasis" on college sports. He asks our attention to "the weaklings among the undergraduates who spend their hours in cheering a football hero and their money in betting on him, while the man of highest achievement in scholarship...
...importance given the curriculum, the Brown Daily Herald has said, "until some undesired evils, not the fault of the game itself, and which should never be associated with any sport, are removed, football can hardly be regarded as an unmitigated good." Undergraduates representing many colleges at the Wesleyan parley, with the exception of one, in a personal vote approved a radical readjustment of the present schedule system. And the Exonian, at Exeter, reveals that statistics prove football to be the decisive factor in determining the institution many of its graduates enter...
...Representatives of six colleges met in Middletown on Sunday. They were neither alumni, nor Presidents, nor editors of classical monthlies with a flair for Elizabethan verse; they were, instead, the editors of undergraduate daily newspapers and the Chairmen of undergraduate student bodies at Harvard, Princeton, Bowdoin, Williams, Dartmouth and Wesleyan...
...college representatives who met at Wesleyan University to discuss intercollegiate athletics felt that athletics occupied a disproportionate place in college life and that they should be returned to their true position. This is particularly true of football...
...constituting an integral part of the educational process. Under the present system coaches feel constant pressure to concentrate upon a few men in order to produce winning teams. Athletics have not been general enough to justify an endowment. As Mr. Arthur Howe, former Yale quarterback, pointed out at the Wesleyan conference, athletics have been conducted like professional sporting clubs, and consequently supported as such. We believe this attitude is false. Since sound bodily development is essential to the perfection of nobler qualities of mind and soul, athletics for all must become the new ideal. When this ideal is actually established...