The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-06-15

the colleges for women. The college
young woman has read OF her spartan
sister, and she Is no longer satisfied
with the work OF the gymnasium; she
makes the play OF athletics.
college athletics have brought TO the
desks greater health. The pallid face
and student stoop' have become un-
popular. The struggles on the track,
diamond and gridiron have developed
courage. patience, unselhshness tenn
perance and purity. Rowdyism and de-
bauchery have been lessened and the
morals OF college life have been inn
proved by the escape OF youthful ener-
gy upon the athletic field.
THE work OF college athletics. how
ever, has not made even their most
ardent supporters blind TO their grave
evils In the first enthusiasm for col
lege sports. our colleges seemed TO be
changing into athletic clubs. FisTce
intercollegiate rivalries arose: Any
thing to win became the spirit OF coll
lege sport. This professionalism was de-
veloped. Scholarly aims were forgot
ten and crack athletes received induce
ments I'm scholarship and salaries. Col
lege contests became the means OF adj
vertising institutions and athletics de-
cided college preferment. College sport
emphasized not the Individual athletic
development of the students. but stu
dent support OF college teams.
such evils could not long exist un-
challenged. The lovers of sport have
grappled with the involved problems.
and have lessened some and removed
many OF the evils. The future must
be marked by a continuation OF this
reform. College athletics must be
brought into the right relation 10
scholarships. They must be made 10
extend among the students and must
be wholly purged of professionalism
"The grosser profess. .onalsm has been
removed from the best colleges. Reg
ulap salaries and excessive scholar
ships are discontinued. Time and
scholarship limits have been placed up
on participation in athletics. But there
still exists what one has called pro-
amateurism,' summer baseball. gifts
| from friends and training tables pre-
sent ways OF keeping the letter. but
violating the spirit OF college sport.
Some students could play summer
baseball without injury to college ath-
letics: some gifts of friends are not diff
ferent from paternal allowances. But
these exceptions. II allowed would open
the door TO professionalism and u a
salary system.
college sport lacks proper extension
among the students. The richly tall
ented few play on the teams. while the
one-talented many look on as specta-
tors.
"The finances OF college athletics pre-
sent another problem. Money-making
is the aim of the present Engagement.
What OF athletics at NroWn? j am
proud TO say that / do not believe that
there is another American college.
whose athletes during the last year
have been cleaner. All Brown men who
are lovers OF clean sport must rejoice
that there have been set up. such high
standards"
MR.. ANDERSON'S ADDRESS.
The closing speech of the afternoon
exercises was the address 10 undergrad
yates by Clifford Spence Anderson Of
Providence. In part he said:
I'm accordance with hoary tradition
the faculty shall be the first recipient
OF my bounty. 1t has often been said
by them OF old time. We will not
roast the faculty, they are doing the
best they cam But l see no reason why
| should perjure myself and risk my
hopes OF heaven, merely that these
words may be handed down to one more
generation. If the faculty had been
doing the best they could, they never
would have scorned the fifth annual pc
tition OF the senior class for exams or
| would have inaugurated the Langdon
! system, I'm which the student tells why
| Dante's Inferno Is the genuine article,
and then listens attentively for an hour