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Show PRIET1 II LEAD FOR SPDRTAGTIVITY XETV YORK. Feb. 9. Princeton university has set a precedent that should go a long way toward stimulating stimu-lating intercollegiate athletics among the big universities of the country during the war. When the athletic council of Princeton Prince-ton met to dei.-ide whether or not it would be best to continue intercollegiate intercol-legiate athletic relations this year in accordance with the recommendations of the National Collegiate Athletic association, athletic mentors at other big institutions, particularly in the east, awaited the verdict with a great deal of interest. And when it was announced that Princeton would do all in her power to continue athletics as in past years the news was received with general satisfaction, partk-uinrly among the student bodies of outside institutions where athletics was dropped in IfHT. If Princeton could see the way clear to form athletic teams and carry out intercollegiate schedules in the face of sadly depleted ranks in till branches of sport, why should such big schools as Harvard or Yaie hang back? There is enough athletic material in nearly every school in the couutrv to fill up the gav-s left vacant by athletes who have entered the service of Cucle Sam. The college athlete of 191 S will, of course, be much younger than usual, but there is vigor and plenty of it in young blood, and the fact that athletic ranks are in need of much new material will be an incentive to bring out candidates in all branches of sports who would not think of trving to win places on the various teams in normal times. Princeton is to be congratulated for her stand. She has lost her stars of the gridiron, the I'iamond and the tra.-k. j but she is going to develop new ones. That is the kind of college spirit that savors of oatrioiism. inasmuch as college col-lege nthietics of all kinds have been recommended by the government as the best means of making the young manhood man-hood of the country physically "f it to tackle any emergency that arises. |