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one hour's work, the athlete immediately becomes a professional
and is ineligible to play. When playing games for his school

in intereollegiate athletic contests no acadenic credit is given
for this activity, but credit toward graduation 4s given a member
of the band for his services.

It is thinkable that you could take athletic
eoaching by correspondence and maybe you could get a job at
some fine school, but it is improbable, By earning a Varsity
letter, you feel that you have filled one of the laboratory
requirements. If you desired to teach History or Chemistry, you
could carry the minimum the school required and you could take
as long as you desired to complete the course. But if you care
to participate in intercollegiate athletics, you must possess
27, 28, or 30 hours of academic credit the two preceding
semesters before you can enter the game laboratory of athletic
instruction.

"A recent survey was conducted in one of
our Mid-Wes tern universities to determine what percentage of the
student body was eligible for athletic competition under the
present ruling of twenty-seven hours of passing work the
preceding semester. The findings were interesting. Out of a.
total enrollment of 4,082 students, 2,197 were found to be
eligible and 1,992 ineligible. But it was the average of the
women in class standing that brought the average of the student
body a little past the 50 per cent mark. Of the men students,
1,240 were eligible and 1,461 were ineligible; of the women
957 were eligible and 531 were ineligible. Perhaps it is unjust