Word: wesleyans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Boston Herald: "If the evil has not been exaggerated. What is the remedy? And what do the students say for themselves? At the Wesleyan University conference they were agreed that football needs to be curtailed in the interest of education. . . . And if college athletics really need revision, what more promising sign could there be than the undertaking of the task by the students themselves...
...definite statement of the question for the first debate, in which one Harvard team will meet Brown at Providence, and the other will debate with Wesleyan at Cambridge, was received yesterday from E. s. Noble, President of the Eastern Intercollegiate Debate League. The question as stated by Mr. Fred Perkins, prominent Providence lawyer and official counsel of the League is, "Resolved. That this house deplores the condition of intercollegiate athletics in eastern colleges...
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...
...evil has not been exaggerated, what is the remedy? And what do the students say for themselves? At the Wesleyan University conference they were agreed that football needs to be curtailed in the interest of education; their recommendations include the reduction of the number of intercollegiate games to four, the abandonment of "championships," a graduate coaching system on a professor's salary basis, and no direction from the coaches during games. And if college athletics really need revision what more promising sign could there be than the undertaking of that task by the students themselves? --The Boston Herald...
...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...