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Show Colled Are Endangered by A ii i jm Excessive Inter- AthletlCS collegiate Contests By PHOF. HENRY D. WHITE, Cbalrnan Faculty Committee on Alhlellcs. Willlana Colled. """""I During 1 lit past few years the policy of tlic faculty eomtnilfen T" on athletics at WillianiH college has boon to reduce tlic iiuin- lier of intercollegiate athletic contests. The facility lias for-B5pl for-B5pl mnlly approved this policy, and is in accord with the rcsolu-ItSipMra rcsolu-ItSipMra (ion passed hy the Intercollegiate Athletic Association of tho I jugSij lTited .States at its annual meeting in December, 1!)0(I, "that jKyl inter-class games and intramural sports in general should he Iiili'Si l fostered to the end that a larger number of students may JiUjjyU receive the beuelils, and that intercollegiate competitions bo madu rather an incident thun the main end of college and university athletic sports." The trustees of the college support this position. po-sition. The reasons for this movement are obvious. Intercollegiate athletic contests have come to assume an undue importance in the minds of tho undergraduates and of the public. A matter essentially secondary has been made of primary importance. A wholesome rivalry has grown into on unwholesome straining for results. The educational aim of colleges ,nnd universities has been obscured. A judicious limitation of the number of intercollegiate athletic congests con-gests will tend to remove the emphasis now placed on the public and ppcetacular side, and to place it wherej.it belongs, on the side of tho greatest good to the greatest number. Too rapid head growth In a treo 'is remedied, and the main branches are . - developed, by pruning at the tip. ottvwfi 0 MJaJLH |