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Show H College Athletics in j H Higher Education; NEW YORK, Dec. 27. Recognition H of college athletics and recreation as j J a definite part of the academic pro- gram of American institutions of high-er high-er education was urged here today by Dean J. R. Angell of the University H of Chicago, at the opening session of B the National College Athletic associa- H tion's annual convention. 1 Adredssing more than 100 delegates 1 from colleges and universities, he clt- B ed as "a splendid chapter in the de- H "elopment of American manpower," 1 the recreational features of army 1 training effected by the war depart 1 "Why should the colleges bo less Hl military" authorities?" he asked. "In H their efforts to build a great modern H army the latter recognized early that H men must not only be trained .along lines intended to harden them and to school them in military maneuvers, but that they must be given wholesale recreation to develop vigor, alertness and morale." Admitting the evils of competitive intercollegiate athletics, Dean Angell enumerated also their good points and advocated that the colleges the after-the after-the war opportunity to take over the entire physical and moral education of their students, instead of turning over to agencies "at best but partially under un-der their control," the supervision of the more conspicuous portion of their games and sports. Dr. T. A. Storey, New York state inspector of physical training, appealed appeal-ed to the association to recommend to President Wilson and the government the necessity for establishing a national na-tional bureau for physical training to supervise athletics in schools and colleges col-leges because of the many physical rejections of men called for the draft army. This step was imperative, he said, and such a bureau shoudl be regarded re-garded as important as the department of agriculture and should be established estab-lished at Washington and supervised as other departments are supervised by cabinet officials. no. |