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Show as follows: "When the high school sends to the college students who cannot can-not write with precision and who lack the elementary training which makes for clear thinking, it does violence to that ideal of intellectual sincerity for which the school was established, and the college which accepts 3uch students and then submerges its own intellectual forces in a flood of outside activities has forfeited forfeit-ed some of its ideals." These observations are pertinent perti-nent to the lower standard of scholarship in high schools and, Iossibly may go far in explaining explain-ing it. Even here in Bingham during the basket ball season the average student thought more of the game than of his or her studies, stu-dies, we contend that athletics over balance in too many cases their intellectual life, if they do not wholly unbalance it. Athletics in schools, we are told are primarily for the development dev-elopment of the body in harmony har-mony with the development of the brain, even divert its energies ener-gies from the real purpose of school, they must necessarily lower the standard of scholarship. scholar-ship. What Dr. Pritchett advises ad-vises is the establishment of a proper balance between "outside activities" and intellectual life." His advice is, at least, worth serious consideration, and most any man who gives the matter a thought will agree with him in the gist of his report. The question ques-tion is "are we getting too much athletics in our High Schools? EDITORIAL ATHLETICS AND SCHOLARSHIP Dr. Pritchett, President of the Carnegie Foundation, takes occasion oc-casion in his annual report to criticise "outside activities" which "run counter to intellectual intellec-tual life." He says "No reasonable man will object to the employment of certain activities, for example athletics, in their due prospective; prospec-tive; but when they are allowed to dominate the intellectual life of the school, they become abuses. abus-es. In continuing his report he becomes more explicit and writes |
