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Show LONG FOOTBALL IMPS OPPOSE Northwestern and Chicago University Officers Support Sup-port Lowell CHICAGO Jan. 20. Walter I ill Scott, president of the Northwest rn university, :md David A. Robertson j dean of arts and literature at the I'nl- verslty of Chicago, today made pub'lc statements in which they sur)orted, to a certain extent, the attitude as ! turned by President A. L.. Lowell of I Harvard on football as It relates to I college education. President Lowell In his annual r. -I port made public Wednesday, as od that public interest In football b I tended to give excessive importance to college athletic contests. "Tho genera statement made by President Lowell was a bold nnd courageous one," Dean Robertson aid. "Tho only thing In the statement state-ment with which I do not agree Is the patronizing nttitudo- of Harvard toward some of tho smaller Institutions Institu-tions which it meets athletically. "I do not bellevo In Intr-rsecllonal I football for the reason that the trips : take too much time from tho school 1 work. Wp have had a good Instnnco ' of this In the trip made to Prim n I last fall. Although we were pleaded with the results of the game we w'ore 1 not altogether pleased with the way In which it hindered tho school work of the men who made the trip." I President Hcott rieclared that the American colleges do not exiwt for the ake of I -at In or of football. We believe in Intercollegiate atn-I atn-I letlcs and intercollegiate Latin." I President Scott said. "W e Judce that ! if either of these is made an end in Itself it assume- a position of importance im-portance detrimental to tho interests for which our colleges exist." 00 |