Show A FREE COLLEGE The action of ot tho trustees of ot Swarthmore Swarthmore more college in refusing a donation pf of conditioned on tho the abandon abandonment abandonment ment of cf football and all other forms of Is being generally y commend commended ed Newspapers and periodicals that have commented on the incident have been quick to realize that the accept acceptance acceptance acceptance ance of or the tho donation would have had the effect of at tying the hands of the college ollege In one important particular No point is made of the necessity or flack of necessity for tor athletic Instruction Ins instruction truc tion in our colleges and universities It Is pointed out and properly so sot sos sob I t l t b 1 s that if I In order to secure money m a col college college college lege can an be Induced to abandon one de department department department Jt it might for money mone aban abandon abandon abandon don some other department For ex example example example ample there might be an old crank with a hatred of at mathematics He might offer some seine millions to a college on condition that it abandon its course in mathematics The same principle applies to all college departments There is no telling where the thing might stop Freedom In our colleges freedom fre dam of ot expression and of manage management management management ment is important I above everything else We Ve must confess our admiration of Swarthmore for setting so so splendid an example Three million dollars is alot a alot alot lot of ot money these hard times or any times for lor that matter It would have hae meant a good deal to Swarthmore as asit asit asit it would have meant a good deal to any college Even our largest institutions institutions institutions of ot learning would be very glad to re elve provided they could receive It without loss of ot The income from such a sum at say 4 per cent would be enough to broaden the scope cope of the college enough to Institute new and much needed departments And It must have cost cos c the trustees a struggle to give the money up After r all there are many ninny people who do not approve of college athletics They see se seso so much In the newspapers about what wha t the young men are doing In the athletic c line end so little about what they Uley do doin d dIn c in If their studies that they get the ide idea a that the most Important thing thin about a college course is the athletic course This Is 13 far from the truth The ath letlo letio department is most Important but no college considers athletics a as s of he lie first importance The chief purpose in instituting th the e course Is to build up the bodies of the young men for It has long been rec recognized recognized that much learning is of small value to a weak body The physical as veil as the mental side of the boy bo y should be developed keeping them as a s nearly equal as possible And the main point must not be Je lost t sight of It is that no college can af at afford afford atford ford to accept gifts with hampering re restrictions restrictions attached to them No col collego collego collego lego that does accept such gifts It Is worthy of a place among our educational educational educational institutions |