Show C COLLEGE ATHLETICS SPORTS OCCUPY TOO MUCH ATTENTION AT-TENTION IN COLLEGES I So Declares a Committee of Educators Appointed by Universities to Investigate In-vestigate MTatter New York Ot 11At a conference representing the faculty committees on athletics of the principal American universities which was held at Brown university Providence R f I on Feb luary 3S 1S90 a sub 0011111111101 was appointed to Investigate tim entire matter of Intercollegiate Sin S-In nil Its phases ani t > prepare a report re-port upon the same The final report of the committee has 1een much de layed and has Just been nmdc public The renorc states that at lIP K nt I athletic sports occupy n disproportion l = ate amount of attention in many oi our universities college and schools amid the main end of ill rules must be o piovenl outdoor splits and physical exercises from iiUiMfurim with the I menial and moral ottalnmeiiu it seems far wiser to nnjiiil abuses by guidance and regulation than to and lmn them by the abolition of the sports HIs obvious that all policies and untvprtllles Bhou I have iviuinnients as to the scholarship > jf tholr teams Every member shotilJ bj in I good ritnndlr No studeir should P permitted t per-mitted to make athletics the principal occupation of his college life Only students who are genuine mem bers of a university should be permit ted to appear in public exhibitions and gatemoney considerations should be wholly eliminated from the paiies The committee considers that there Is no reason why college teams or even parts of college tennis houll be assembled as-sembled for practice during the summer sum-mer and when they receive a money benefit by having even their expenses pail the practice trenches dangerously near professionalism I would be bet tel If all universities and colleges could be brought to give up even the preparatory pre-paratory practice two weeks before the term opens Another practice which the commit tee considers objectionable Is the interference in-terference with boys who have developed devel-oped a taste for athletics In the opel athletis preParatorY pre-ParatorY schools In many cases correspondence cor-respondence Is opened by graduate Saduntc committees In search of athletic material mate-rial or emissaries are sent out and In fluence thrown around school boys to induce them to enter certain Institu tions Sometimes even financial aid Is promised toward an education Some of our universities are reported to I leI I le-I regular system of looking up likely athletes among the schools I t The committee believes that the large sums of money taken In at many of the football games form a constant temptation to extravagance and to the Illicit use of money and recommends that gate money should be reduced to 0 minimum by agreement of all universities al ersl tiCs A set oi rules is submitted and rec crnmended for adoption Many of these t are already in force at the principal I universities but as the committee remarks re-marks their enforcement Is not all that could be wished by the friends al I amateur athletics Chief among them is the stringent amateur rule now In force at Columbia and the rule which forbids a special student from taking r part In any competition until he has been n year at the university The lat ter rule Is lade even more stringent Jby a clause which requires that ho l shall take a course equivalent to that proscribed by candidates for n degree member In the department of which degIee |