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...studies the signs in the skies can doubt that a show-down is coming. Intense interest in sports, to the extent that the primary purposes of a college are forgotten, will build a structure of sentiment that will not stand. No one questions the value of athletics as a great developing instrument for many of the most desirable qualities of mental and bodily strength. Increased athletic facilities and the effort everywhere to interest the greatest possible number in the various forms of sport is a hopeful indication of future dividends in health and citizenship. But somehow or other this "greatest...
Within a few years, well-informed observers believe, the whole question of athletics uber alles will have to be settled. The movement has been started to make athletics the sanely adjusted power for good that they can be. "Sport for sport's sake" will sometime prevail over the attitude that success in sport is the measure of the worth of an institution. Athletics exist for purposes of the colleges: the colleges do not exist for purposes of sport. The Dartmouth
...Student Council gave its approval to the recommendation that boxing be adopted as an intercollegiate minor sport, but that this year there be but one meet and that preferably with Yale...
...competitions to be held in public, and the Headmasters' Conference in supporting him in the rejection of the scheme by 36 votes to 10. It is satisfactory to know that there are some persons of consequence in this country who are making a stand against the gradual tendency of sport in this country, and in America also, to be practiced not for the sake of the sport itself, but for the sake of public renown and advertisement. The development of sport on these lines can be clearly traced in the histories both of ancient Greece and Rome, and the parallel...
...well to pay heed. Let these be relegated to our professional sportsmen and those amateurs who have devoted themselves to the maintenance and improvement of the national standard. The Universities and Public Schools can do well without these storms of public advertisement . . . . No; the tradition of Public School sport is that it is a recreation and not a profession, and as long as this tradition remains the better will it be both for the Public Schools and for sport...