Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1900-10-19
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS
FACTS AND OPINIONS GATHERED
FROM CONTEMPORARIES
A GREAT COLLEGE REFORM.

a GREAT COLLEGE REFORM.
The committee, composed of Prof. Ira
n. Hollis of Harvard, Prof. George 5.
Patterson of the University of Pennsyl-
yania. Prof. Henry b. Fine of Princeton.
Prof. Wilfred II. Munro of Brown, Prot.
BENJAMIN |. Wheeler of the University
of California, Prof. James f. Kemp OF
Columbia and Prof. Louis Nj. Dennis OF
Cornell. which was organized about two
wear, ago to consider means or curing
the abuses affecting college sport, has at
last framed a set of rules. No one can
doubt that, from both an amateur and
collegiate viewpoint, these new and
stringent rules are necessary, ana we
think no one can doubt that the rules
will have a strongly beneficial effect not
only on amateur athletics, but also on the
problem of reconciling an Indulgence IN
athletics with the demands of the class
zeal department of college life.
In many respects the report subscribes
TO the practical attitude long ago taken
BY President Eliot of Harvard 1t de-
bars freshmen from anniversary teams.
1t debars from the training table any
student who cannot pay his own eX'
penses. 1t debars from university con-
tests students who are not of good
standing i'm their classes. 1t says that
no student shall represent university
in more than one branch of sport in
single academic year without permission
of the athletic committee. 1t limits
team practice during vacation to the ten
DAYS prior to the opening of the fall
term. 1t fixes that no student who has
represented one university or college in
an intercollegiate contest shall represent
another university or college until he
has resided one academic year at the sec
ond place and has attained satisfactory
standard of scholarship. 1t orders the
students to refrain from playing on the
so.called summer mines or with "such
athletic clubs as are not deemed to be
purely amateur associations"
These are some of the more important
rules:
"First-The regulation and control OF
athletics are placed in the hands of a
responsible committee, upon which the
Faculty of the university are represented.
"Second-No one shall be allowed to
represent the university in any public
contest. either individually or as mem
Der of any team, unless he can satisfy
the Committee on Athletic Sports that he
is. and intends to be throughout the aca-
demic year, bona iide member of the
university, taking full years work.
mo special or partial student shall
represent the university IN any public
athletic contest unless he is taking
course equivalent to that pres cribed for
candidates for degree in the depart
ment of which he is a member, and shall
have been a member of the university, in
good standing. for one academic wear.
"Fourteenth-NO university team shall
engage in any public athletic contest on
any other than college grounds.
"Nineteenth-NO schedule of match
game.. races or athletic exhibitions ar
ranged by any athletic organization shall
take effect until ii has been approved by
the Athletic Committee. and no game
shall be played until it has been thus
approved.'
In our opinion this is the most far
reaching and the most excellent reform
vet undertaken by the American univer-
stiles Boston journal.