Show GYM BAGLEY TO Takes Issue With Eliot on Bru Brutality Brutality of Modern College Sports BY GYM BAGLEY President Eliot has haa ha again attacked football 11 baseball lf and other ther college sports in which the element elein of brutal tal contest renders them dangerous to limb and even to life News Item ItemAn ItemAn ItemAn An Open Letter to President Eliot Dear President Eliot If you will nih ill par don the presumption in a e poor pOOl chron icIer of brutal sports to thus addressing adl one of your exalted station I 1 would fain sit down Bo This Is on the level I 1 would fain respectfully call your at i to the tho national necessity of football baseball boxing wrestling and all aU sports that demand rough per personal onal encounter and ta R a contest contestI I 1 freely ut re reserve reserve reserve serve sufficient love of your race arid ann national spirit not to desire UtE the down fall of your country and the ious bus scattering of its people Nix NL Bo wait walt Has it never occurred to you Pres dent Eliot why the s of time turn one great gI at people back and roll another I forward Why Athens and Rom en i It surely must What holds hol s the many In deeply d learned India slaves of the U th British few How came It that th t the Jap walloped the everlasting daylight out of the Russian Lawn Tennis or Ping Pong Was It lawn tennis or ping pong A great teacher In the beginning of recorded time said In the sweat of thy face sha thou eat bread But man has frequently made for himself a reprieve from that sentence He has conned others into doing the sweating for him When b h hi had to go go out into the elements and dig to fill his belly he was strong of lim and at t I quick of eye ey He lie had to be When he lie h bP ho came wise as he thought and lolled 1011 olleda il on J a couch the while he tV vas fed by b i iother other hands his lila finish was soon oen Ease and anel luxury were over ever a slate I upon which to wipe wl out nations I Cork Corle up Bo Ho Its all r ht We Ve dont have to o do much digging diggin here in America now We Ve loave Il uve that thai thatto I to the descendants of the once great and find then fallen Romans And the i thought obtrudes may not the cycle swing around again and arid the tho th digging di Pago Dago once more rule the world woId If notice hes coming comin kind of fast at nt that Our Ingenuity is putting us very much on the loll loil If It we vant ant to chat with Jack Tack we dont leg it to his house We Ve call him up on un the phone rhone Even the master moving spirit of or na nature ture love loe always tike take us on therun to see Mary Jane We whisper whipper sweet nothings and hand her the hull over the th wire Takes Life Too Easy We Yo cant walk three blocks bocks There are too many trolley cars Climbing is isa isa isa a lost art since the elevator There Thre lh re ara arano nr no more stairs We e ar are aro losing our teeth for want of or a bone on which to whet them Our prepared pap needs neIs no mi chev che lug ing I We Ye dont have to move any more in tn feed our bellies Machinery r moves for forus if us How soon would it be before this con condition condition diLlon of life Ufo made us a race are ce of puling weaklings unfit alike aUke tb t acquire our needs or to defend those we ye have were it not for the ancestral red blood in our veins that t compels us to seek in m sport spot that which has become unnecessary in inthe inthe inthe the struggle for bread I All right Bo make it pie pic I The youth with no thought of v vIng 1 ing himself of the luxury of the elevator or the trolley will run rim his legs ofT off chasing a baseball The Thi Th time is past when he has to get his by going suing abroad and cutting his neighbors throat oat hut but the spirit of battle within him is I just justas justas as happily exercised by downing his enemy on the football field You may say sa physical exercise is a blessing yes No one denies that Our youth may ma take long walks walka He ma maJ marun marun run about when in thi th country He can swing Indian clubs and nud anI lift dumb durn bells But the awful es and Inconsiderate force of football and nd kin kindred dred sports tut tut Physical Exercise a Task Physical exercise per EC so is a n task Theres Theros as much delight in It as IS there theres is s in conjugating Greek Greel verbs The mind is not occupied Ambition is not stirred There Is no goal to cross It is h the contest that makes make for men menthe the struggle to be better than another something to win winLet winLet Let one ne spend an hour in his room swinging Indian clubs and Ins his brother go forth and kill a grizzly Who of tha th two feels the better for the exercise ex Who Vho of the two is the better man When hen you have abolished sports of ol oCeon contest eon test then President Eliot gather gath r rup up your gown and hike to the ho far fa northern wilds for the yellow peril perU or oi any peril perU that happens to t be b hanging around loose looking for a Job will be looting your in this the r halls of Harvard And this goes for the tle faculty at Co lumbia too |