Show St. St Johns John's College Quits Intercollegiate Athletics I r With All Outside Schools ANNAPOLIS Md Nov 1 19 AP Historic AP-Historic Historic St. St Johns John's college which hit the trail back to the classics a year ago took another bold stride away from the conventional pattern of American colleges today today today to to- day by abolishing intercollegiate athletic competition With the departure from the In Intercollegiate Intercollegiate intercollegiate in- in picture came a sharply worded statement by President Stringfellow Barr criticising what he ie termed a semiprofessional system tern tem in which the term athletic scholarship is widely used to hide subsidy and professionalism in Americas America's collegiate athletics St. St Johns John's he said from now on on will give first consideration to student pleasure And so after the end of the current school year and its athletic schedules the ivy- ivy covered college on the banks of the quiet Severn will concentrate on ona a greatly expanded intramural pro pro- gram Lacrosse Teams St. St Johns John's has produced some topnotch topnotch topnotch top- top notch Lacrosse teams which be became became became be- be came intercollegiate and Olympic champions Its basketball squads always alwa's have ranked with the top fives in the east This years year's football squad playing a emphasized de program sched scheduled scheduled scheduled five games and has lost four without scoring a point The fifth with Johns Hopkins will be played November 26 Next year the college colleg will play six-man six football football on on an intramural basis Intercollegiate athletics said Barr involves substituting a spectator spectator spectator spec spec- psychosis for student pation It meshes the college in with a semiprofessional nal system in in which scores are more important than pleasure and skill The term athletic scholarship he added is widely used today to hide subsidy and prof professionalism Athletic scholarships are granted by many colleges with a good deal of hypocritical talk about ut scholarships scholarships scholarships scholar scholar- ships high grades fine character eligibility etc but for the obvious purpose of providing teams with paid players to win games Directors Resign Both Valentine Dutch Lentz Lent athletic director and John Donohue Donohue Donohue Dono- Dono hue his assistant have resigned ef effective effective of- of in June A tutor with athletic athletic ath ath- letic experience and a full understanding understanding understanding under under- standing of St. St Johns John's new academic academic academic aca aca- demic program will succeed them Under the new program a radical departure from the established system tern tem of higher education students study classics covering the field of of- humanities and sciences It was introduced last year based on the idea of educating people to live instead of or to earn a living I |