Morning journal and courier., 1885-06-23
College AfhIetics.

lFrOI. E. l.. hlcnarQS, or ale COHeSe, Tn gl These various arrangements of the college, looking to the physical well-being of the students, have not been without good effects on the general health of the community They have had their share, too, in encour- aging systematic exercises.
 But the main encouragement to exercise is in the student system of athletics. That system supplies motive and furnishes 8 definite object of effort. To secure the honor of place in one of the university or ganizations, or even to obtain an honorable position in one of the class organizations, each man has to go through long course of faithful training, both in the gymnasium and in the open air. At the time of writing, some 200 men are working daily in the gym nasium as candidates for some crew or nine or in preparation for the contests of the Yale Athletic association. A very small proportion of these would be at work, if it were not for the stimulus of the sports. Com petition is just as much the life of physical exercise as it is the life of trade. Strength comes from the struggle to overcome. Young men are social in their instincts, and not altogether intellectual in their tastes. They are thrown much together, especially in colleges where the dormitory system ex-
  expect of them-of the majority of them, at lsast-that they should find their chief plea sure in talking of their studies. They natural ly choose subjects of conversation foreign to what occupies their hard-working time. They are tired, and seek relaxation. What manly contests in which they or their friends engage? Thus the system of athletics helps to cultivate sense of fellowship among the students; not fellowship in mischief, but fellowship in pluck and manliness, in gener- ous admiration of their mates, and even of their rivals who possess these qualities. Young men are not only very social, they are full of active animal life. This life must find an outlet It does find legitimate out let in athletic sports. The college which has 6 good system of athletic sports is more orderly than the college which has such system Fror1 examination ef the records of the academic department of Yale college for the twenty college years 1s62-63 to 1ss1-S2, the period which saw the growth of the present system of boating, and the rise of base ball and foot ball, it was found that for the first decade the cases of severe discipline, requir- ing expulsion, dismissal, or suspension, aver aged little over 313 per cent. of the mem bership, while for the last decade the aver age was less than 3 per cent. The change in the amount of disorder between the classes was more remarkable. For the first decade, for this kind, the average number of cases per year requiring severe discipline was six and eight t-tenths; for the last decade, three and four-tenths.
 There is in every large college body of men, many of whom may be at the bottom very good fellows, but who, as 8 class, are not the best representatives of youthful man hood. These are the dudes, for whom ath- letic sports are too hard or too 'sbrutal 'They are an increasing class in the colleges whie draw their membership largely from the cities. Where this class is most numerous, athletics flourish least. The best antidote to the dudish spirit is to be found in athletics It will be an evil day for any college when this is large enough or influential enough to call for or support measures which are de- signed to strike from the list of college sports game like football. It is rough game, but it requires in successful player the fearlessness coolness, and quick thinking which make it, beyond all others, manly game.
 Among the good results of athletics ought to be mentioned the opportunities of bus1- ness training, management of 1nen, and the exercise of the various functions of govern ment afforded the students by their athletic clubs with their offices, constitutions, and laws.
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