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tion rather than te inquire inte the persenal wte and trensactions

of @ student, thet is, eo long as those transactions ae honorable.

I 4o not find that the eligibility of the college glee club
menber 1s predicated upon hie refusal to accept feos for singing
at funerals. 7

What we need to do is to forget these cut-moded rules of amaq
teurism, ana put on our eollege teams only these men whom the fseculty |
nenbers certify are actually meking progress toward graduation,

If the eligibility test comes from the etassroom there will be
exall eppertunity for proselyting ami emeall temptation for « rich
alumnus to subsidise a player beceuse of his footbell ability alone,
due to the fect thet there wuld be two years interim before the
bey could play on the team and then for only one or two yeers at
moste Purther, if this slumnus 44d want to subsidize this athleti-
eeliy irelinea boy under this plan it would become en acedemie sub-
‘etdization rather then en ethletic subsidiaation because the student
actually would be making real progress toward greduations
if we put eligibility up to the feoulty we will be getting fit
representatives of their university, axi such athletes would enjoy
the greater thrills when they heve won their letters

Put it up to the seademfotan to insist thet the athletes have
the sane scholastic attainment as the non-athletes. Under our pre-
sent Big Six Conference rules an athlete may contime his sthietic
eligibility ec long eae be wakes a passing grade (grade “D") tn at
least twenty-seven hours for the two preceding semesters, yet if he
is ever to receive a degree, he must mate a "C" average. Under our
present scheme edded difficulties are heaped on the athlete who must
work hie way, by limiting his col ege hours earrie’ in any one semester