The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-12-11
ATHLETIC REFoRM AT HARVARD,
The University Cemmittee on Physical Train
ing Recommends vital Changer.

The University Committee on Physical Train
Ing vital Changes.
The spirit OF innovation which has marked
the owing policy at Harvard for the past year
shows O tendency to extend to other branches
of sport, and there are indications Of healthy
reform in all the departments of physical cul
ture. A committee on athletic sports, physical
culture, and sanitation has been investigating,
and 1t has filed an interesting report with tho
Board of Oversoers, cmbodying a number of
suggestions bearing on vital points In the curri-
culum Of physical development. The
was made up of the following: Augustus Hemen-
way, Robert Bacon. Theodore Roosevelt, G. f.
Adams, second. G. w. Weld. r F. Clark, Edwin
Farnham. NJ. H. Richardson, William Hooper.
c. J. Blake. and H. w. Putnam.
The report, as published In the Harvard Grad
yates Magazine points out that Harvard should
advocate tho principle Of equable education of
mind and body. 1t finds that many students
who have neither tho physique nor the inclina-
ton TO qualify for some of the athletic teams
frequently neglect their bodily reeds in their
struggle for mental requirements. On the other
hand 1t believes that there is a tendency among
that some games. especially football, should be
played, under careful restrictions and between
the colleges only.
plicatod network Of intercollegiate sport calls
for the intelligent supervision of some central.
be referred:absolutely, and that neither the fac.
S Sity nor the corporation TIC ra shou nnI %ake u aay con- sSs
'TSS such worf being oSVioGsly beyond the origi-
nal purposes of the Athletic Committee, it is
thought wtse to make changes by which the re-
strictions and reforms which are deemed neces-
sary may DO practically secured by, agreement
With the oth %h colleges .s rather o than Sy stopping
First, that the undergraduate captains OF the
chief ethletic.teams should be e%x.ofticio mem.
bers Of the committee; second that the three
sSs s y %f@Ss should "a PSs s sisete dapB BS sss ovs By
seers; third, that the committee be given power
to act until their successors are chosen. that the
and that, as there are four important branches
| Of sport. the committee be increased TO twelve,
to be composed of four captains. four members
The special committee deories sthe public
prominence given to al college contests. not,
ably those on TIC gridiron; and says that for
to tho civilized world. and that they are more
often oysrwrought x1maSeandta mentally ~ tho nervous %Gvt
uing in the same strain the report says;
I hardest head is likely, to be affected by
the the nse SuS Sf %,en anaa the the teRipassi sHf to 'daRF sRPort
Tor victory Is too great. It 10 no wonder that
an ss%'s and q d PaSssaSsi HSn acts s oaa RlSSa o q
cur; nor Is 1t strange, with such contests keen,
ly in mind that there sho ID be difficulty in
an undesirable form of diplomacy should bs
developed.
ing to sec athletic contests. but the best dcvel
opment. not to say the decent continuation o
especially at football games. be limited so IA
as possible to college men, and that the game
BIO played only on college grounds"