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ae The students et the University of Chicago recently asked the

authorities te permit then to adopt the Chicago Bears, professional foot-
Wall teen, ee their team and t: make arrangements with the professional

management Go that they sight be afaitted to the Beare hens gamed on on

athletic activity fee basis, The Chicago students wanted to cheer for a
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SeuEga, cane out for subsidisation of Kanes athletics, especially foot-

The petition of the lew York University students offered three
policies: (1) The abolishuent of football as un intercollegiate sport;
(2) The arrenging of o sohedule to fit the ability of the players; and
(3) Open subsidization. The first two propositions were considered
untenable by the students as the students did not want football abolished,
ond the University authorities admitted their inability to arrange a suit~
able schedule to fit the ability of the players, Thus, they concluded
Gubsidization was the only alternative.

I% seams that the student bodies of achoole with losing teans
aro in favor of subsidigation, feeling that most of the successful big
Sine teas are adequately subsidized. I¢ is an open secret.

When certain ?acific Coast athletes wore declared ineligible
vy Conesioner Atherton these sume students entered another university not

fiw the Paelfie Coast Conference.

I certainly have no objection to a boy receiving a subsidy
for playing, beomuse that thing is happening in a great many of our
American universities at the present time, but on a sub-rosa basia, But
when colleges resort to subsidization they have moved to outright pro-