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sohools in New York etate, incluting all. fome of competitive athletics, are udor
the divect control of the ligh gohool aduinistywtions Thero 4s no such thing as an
athictic assoclatiais tf the oclloges would abolish thoiy athletic associatiaus,
with their clumi end student boards, and if the universities would handle the athletic
funds the sane as 212 other statowapyropriated funds, then swh bugoearc ae especially
highwpriced conches* salaries and the diverting of auch suns as $10,000 for advertising
when in reality it is wod asa slush find « thon moh of the gric? of our procs
athletie catastrophe would be dono esmy withe ed

Reeprosident ngell, of Yale, in enpinsising the need of cumpetitive sport
groups, eaids “We must believe in all sincerity, as I am sure may of us do not, thet
physical eduonion, incluting competitive sports, is an essential part of tho obligation
of the college ani in no see a mare excrescomes to be confided to the camml outsider
or to the trmetent apprentices We mt recogaise that it stands in the closest possible
relation to moral education, which we often pronounce as one of the prime duties of the
Gollege, if not, indeod, the very firsts We must believe mreservedly in sports for
the whole college camnmtity, and caspetitive group sports as far ae possibles If, then,
plycical education in tho largest sense is an intrinsic yar of the work of the colleges
viy chould thore Jonger be hocitation in recognising that foot, and seosybing the full
responsibilities which go with ite™

Write the chaismnn of your college atiilotic camittee and insist thet the
authoritics carefully reconsider thely yast and preset action of denying a squere deal
to some of the best brains ond bodies in their inst&tutiouse Mnlists Investigate and
acquit ow young athlote of any improper attitude when ho desires to cbtein an edusation
by usiug his lewful telents in quest of a higher educeticn,s |

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