| Show f FOOTBALL AT HARVARD president eliot ot harvard sity haa decreed that football must cither be purified its brutal feat ires or must alt ogather froni college siofia the presidents doat aion wil ba all by the community football need not be brutal and the alternative therefore involves no hardship the disadvantages of football as the game Is now usually played have been fully recognized by parents to whom the casualty lists must tell then own eloquent tale but there has been a certain amount of acquiescence based upon other good reasons football bag been looked upon as a substitute to manual training and to physical labor it is of course a very poor substitute inasmuch as its benefits to the mind are greatly inferior but it does at least supply the element of bodily exercise then again a certain standard of life is demanded for success at football to which excesses would bo very detrimental parents have therefore recognized that football well and enthusiastically played implies the exclusion of the grosser and more hurtful forms of physical indulgence and has thus a genendal ben endal reaction upon the studies it la moreover to bo remembered that the opportunities for pleasure of even a college student have their limitations trivial as such limitations may be and football is sometimes the alternative to the prize ring the former is usually brutal it often involves a hurtful physical strain and it Is apt to create an atmosphere hia to study but it is infinitely preferable to the prize ring football does not imply a low moral standard nor does it attract the base and the unclean there is no affinity between football and vulgarity nor need it be accompanied by the lower forms of professionalism the lilze ring on the other hand is the very center and home of everything that can degrade and debase young manhood and between it and football there can therefore bo no comparison president eliote decision will not abolish football from haryard but it will reform the game and so perpetuate whatever good features it may pos seas |
