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other beneficiaries. Coaching and physi-
cal education are professions, and the
sooner we have a newer and a better un-
derstanding of these moot points, the bet-
ter off all of us will be. Who can say
that from a great army of aspiring youth,
tingling with the love of contests and con-
quests, it is not possible to discover an-
other young Naismith, a Stagg, a Gulick,
a MacKenzie? These men were all
poonboys. They struggled for their edu-
cation ‘and they competed in athletics
when their‘parents frowned upon the pro-
fession they were to take up. Since those
days, physical education has been digni-
fied and edified, until now we have giants
of intellect as well as\physique in the field
of physical education.

singing at funerals” and collects a tidy sum
for singing ina church choir, and in ad-
dition gets“credit toward graduation for
his singirig in that choir?

No,€redit is given the\athlete for par-
ticipating in daily two-hour\practice drills
on the football field, or for-phaying 1
regularly scheduled contest.
should go down town and play in
competitive game with an outside team,
even without remuneration, he would
automatically become ineligible. If the
athlete should referee an intramural
game-of any kind for the-same amount
of money that the singer receives for his

 
  
  
 
  
    

comeg a professional and + ineligible to
play. When playing for his school in an
intercollegiate contest, he receives no
academic credit, but credit toward grad-
uation is given members of the band who
play between halves at. the same game.
If you want to teach history or chem-
istry, you can carry the minimum load
the school requires and take as long as
you desire to complete the course. But
if you want to coach athletics and seek
to earn a varsity letter as a recommenda:

young athlete to use his skills just as does’
the student of art or musica, It has been
said that the rhythm and the poise and
the timing of a superb athlete are art and
poetry in action. \

But life is full of paradoxes. With one
hand we give money to aid the physically
crippled, and with the other we give
boodle money to cripple mentally the
physically strong. It is easy-te~collect

It is just a8 logical to think that we
should have physical-education scholar-
ships as well as any other special scholar- No doubt you read some_months-ago
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Conference had instituted. It had hired
a former “G-man” to assist in a survey of
financial support for athletes playing in
the conference. If a G-man should inves-
tigate any other honorable, long-estab-
lished conference On obeying the present
rules of the soublkenct as they are now
printed, his findings would cause much
panic. The athletic situation is a mess.
Conferences are printing one rule, but
actually obeying another. This is com-
parable to the present international sit-
uation, when. the world powers say we
must be prepared, we must protect our-
selves against the outlaws.

Colleges should take a page from the
State of New York- in its educational
policy regarding high schools. All activi-
ties of the high schools, including all
forms of competitive athletics, are under
the direct control of the high-school ad-
ministration. There is no such thing as
an athletic association. If colleges would
abolish their athletic associations, with
their alumni and student boards, and if

the universities would handle athletic

“funds the same as all other State-appro-
priated funds, then such bugbears as
high-priced coaches’ salaries and bits of
skullduggery such as diverting $10,000 or
more from advertising channels into a
“slush fund”—then much of the grief of
our present athletic catastrophe would be
done away with. ee

\. James Rowland Angell, when presi-
dent of Yale University, once made the
casé for competitive sport groups when
he sat: ae
__We-mist-believe inn all sincerity, as I am sure
many of us\do not, that physical education, in-
cluding competitive ‘sports, is an essential part
of the obligation. of the college and in no sense
a mere excrescence, to be confided to the casual
outsider or to the\ transient apprentice. We
must recognize that it,stands in the closest pos-
sible relation to moral education, which we often

pronounce as one of the prime duties of the

college, if not, indeed, the ‘very first. We must
believe unreservedly in sports for the whole
college community, and competitive group sports
as far as possible. If, then, physical education
in the largest sense is an intrinsic. part of the
work of the college, why should there longer be
hesitation in recognizing that fact, and_ accept-
ing the full responsibilities which go with. it?

Why should there-be, indeed? The
core of the whole question is, what is bet-_
~“te\for youth? To answer, we must make,
Shall we continue a system \

‘achoice.
that puts a premium on hypocrisy and
dishonesty, that encourages selfishness

and parisitism, that warps youth’s view |

of life far out of line with the actual?
Or shall we teach our young men to be

realistic, to value their potential contribu--~

tions as highly as\th¢ lassics or chem-

“Gstry student values ‘his?-and therefore to.

~ expect and get equal recognition? The
choice, to me, seems obvious.

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