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Show WHY SHOULD OUR COLLEGES PUT BAN ON CLEAN SPORTS? Many of our leading colleges are sending out edicts that athletics will be abolished in case of war. Just why such an announcement should be made only once more goes to provo we go off half-cocked In our enthusiasm. Why stop athletics? What other methods will condition boys so fast and so thoroughly, making them fit for trenches and hard work, as athletic ath-letic training at school? Yet, wo road repoits almost dally about the abolition aboli-tion of sport in the colleges. Tho generals and those having enthusiasm en-thusiasm in charge aro of quite a different opinion than the athletic faculties fac-ulties of tho colleges. Tho army and navy wants athletics continued so that whon the youngsters enlist or are drafted they will he physically fit for the hardships warfare entails. It is to be hoped those having such matters mat-ters in charge will look at it in tho common sense sort of way and not allow false scntimont to force them to take tho wrong track in the present pres-ent emergency. |