The Washington times., 1903-11-24
Football VS.. Scholarship.
The Practical and Theoretical Views
of Alumni

From time to time we hear protests
from some of the older alumni of the
various colleges, against what they
call the brutality Of football and its
unintellectual character Now let Us
have a practical illustration of their
feeling.
Harvard, one Of the oldest Ameri-
can colleges, and the one which per
haps comes nearest to the ideal of
university common to the Old World.
has been ANONYMOUSLY licked -ro
other word will express it-within the
past fortnight, first by Dartmouth,
little fresh-water college away up in
New Hampshire, aud now by Yale, lis
hereditary foe; the score being eleven
tc nothing in cue case, and sixteen to
nothing IN the other. To be consist
ent, the Harvard alumni, who have
been protesting against the ascenden-
ey of athletics over scholarship in ouI
colleges should be glad of this. But
we should like TO know if they would
dare stand up AT an alumni dinner
and say so.
The victories in question may be
cue to the fact thai Harvard Is giving
more attention to scholarship and less
to athletics than other colleges do.
Certainly her record for scholarly
work has not gone down along with
her football record But anyway those
victories do not show that her football
team is superior 20 the others. And
can any alumnus of Harvard say that
he Is glad?
The truth of the matter is that
however scholarly, earnest. and Sc
rious ,uan may be, if he has been in
college, and knows the love of his
alma mater, ne wants her to win IN
everything, even on the gridmon. He
may tit up his chin and pretend he
does not care. when her team takes all
The stuhing out Of that of rival col
lege. but he cannot pretend he likes to
fave the process reversed That Is
/ just the way he undergraduates feel;
aad that is why athletics occupy So
large a place in the lfe Of the average
e., llege boy. Stop blaming him Tor H.
all you fathers and uncles You are
;ust as bad as be Is
What would have become Of the Horse
Show If bar-l accounts had also been
doc,.ed2
Senator Iioa autobiography ;ins two
Tat volumes. "a % can .ng Z nth com,
ments on the aHtior. But Mr. fos.
could have found out what pc'ps-
thought Of him Just as wdI Il he had
waited for his obituary notice.
Burglars broke into Mrs Eddy's house
not Ions ago. apparently thinking that
she could supply the place Of the miss
ing property by faith instead OF the po-
lice They were mistaken.
A Chinese pcrsoa writes 70 one of the
New York papers asking why Christians
have SO little respect for age as to hate
their clergymen when the latter begin
10 grow old. This is one Of those ques-
lions which almost any conscientious
person would rather not answer OF
hand.
when Yale paints the town red it is
1Iarvard's turn to look blue
The latest specimen Of White House
crank wanted TO convince the Presi
dent that negroes are Jews. He must
have thought that Mr.. Roosevelt
strongest characteristic was credulity-
Chicago restaurant keepers have dis
continued the band habit Chin music
: is rhe only kind really popular in Chi
cago.
II viii take strong arguments to con
vince people who have TO ride in colo
street cars az this season that the heal
, furnished by temper will avert pneu
monia
The unpleasant thing about the Rox
burghe wedding 10 New York is th'
amount Of guying which all the bacl
Counties feel it their duty TO do in con
sequence
1t is thought that a South Americai
bug can be found which viii extermi
!