The Cairo bulletin., 1905-06-29
NATIONS RICH MUST CONDUCT THEIR
BUSINESS IN A DECENT MANNER
these capable men to their brethren
who need their help.
Brutality in Sports.

Brutality IN sports.
The second point upon which |
wish to speak is the matter of sport. |
Now shall not be suspected Of ten
dency unduly 10 minimize the import
anee of sport. | believe heartily in
sport believe in outdoor games, |
and | do not mind in the least that
they are rough games, or that those |
who rake part in them are occasional |
ly injured. have no sympathy what !
ever with the overwrought sentiment
alty which would keep a young man
/ in cotton wool, and ! have hearty
contempt for him if he counts a
broken arm or collar bone as of SER
fous consequence, when balanced
,gainst the chance OF showing that
ne possesses hardihood. physical ad-
1ress, and courage. But when these
| INJURIES are inflicted by others, either
yantonly or of set design, we are con-
| 'ronted by the question, not of damage
20 one mans body, but of damage to
! he other mans character. Brutality
| playing a game should awaken the
| heartiest aud most plainly shown CON
'empt for the player guilty of il; es-
1ecially if this brutality is coupled
With a low cunning in committing 1t
| without getting caught by the umpire.
hope to see both graduate and under
| graduate opinion come to scQrn such a
nan as one guilty of base and dishor-
| rable action, VINO has no place in the
| negard of gallant and upright men.
KEEP Out Professionalism.
1T is bad thing for any college
nan to grow to regard sport as the
serious business of life. 1t Is bad
hing to permit sensationahsm and
1ysteria to shape the development of
aur sports. And finally it is much
worse thing TO permit college sport
o become in any shape or way taint-
I'd by professionalism. or by 50 much
IS the slightest suspicion Of money
making; and this is espec ally true
t the professionalism is furtive, If the
10Y or man violates the spirit Of the
ule while striving 70 keep within the
etter. Professional sports is all right
d its way | am sad 10 say thai
| among my friends | number Rrofes
!, lional boxers and wrestlers, oarsmen
md base bali men, whose regard
ralue and whom in turn | regard as
thoroughly good citizens. But the col
:. 'ege undergraduate who, in furtiV(
fashion, becomes a semi-professiona
IS an unmitigated curse, and that no
llone to university life and to tht
ause of amateur sport; for the col
| 'ege graduate ought In after years t
= AXE the lead in putting the busines
y morality of this country on prope
II plane, and he can not do IL ii In hi
1wn college career mis- code OF cor
Y luct has been warped and twisted
Moreover, the spirit which puts so g
. cessive value upon his work as t
IS produce this semi-professional Is i
D. self unhealthy. | wish to see Harvar
y win a reasonable proportion of the col
p ests in which 1t enters. and | shoul
10 be heartily ashamed of every Ha
re ward athlete who did not spend ever
IS ounce there was in him in the effol
Or to win, provided only he does It
re honorable and manly fashion. But
OF .hink our effort should be to minim2
w rather than to increase that kind {
e. love of athletics which manifests
le self, not in Joining in the athlet
sports, but in crowding by tens
'r- If thousands TO see other people y
nj dulge in them. II is a far better thin
'e. for our colleges to have the averaf
al lstudent interested in some form I
ST. athletics than to have them all gat
e. er in a mass to see other people
ce their athletics for them.
re 80 much for the undergraduate
MT Now for the alumni, the men who a.
ne at work out in the great world
rs course the mans first duty Is to hiI
of self and to those Immediately depen
er ent upon him. Unless he can pull b
own weight he must be content to 7
main passenger all his life. b
W. we have right to expect that Il
mt men who come out of Harvard will I
ed something more than merely pl
IA their own weight We have rig
in. to expect that they will count as pc
I'd. tive forces for ihe beterment of tht
fellow .countrymen; ard they can IN
count only II they combine the pow
er- Of devotion to lofty ideal with pr;
ch tical common sense in striving to re
me ize this ideal
OF Nation Needs Leaders.
lot This nation never stood In great
say need than now of having among
mt, leaders men Of lofty ideals, which th
ave try to live up to and not merely
'elt talk of. We need men with thu
nst ideals n public life, and we need tn,
md just as much In business and In su
no a profession as the law. We can
I'M statute establish only those exceed
Of ly rough lines Of morality the oy
iig- passing Of which means that the II
tier is In jeopardy Of the constable or
bet sherin. But the nation Is badly
ital If In addition to this there Is no
the very much higher standard Of condl
nor standard impossible effectively
so. establish by statute, but one u
ife: which the community as whole,
how especially the real leaders OF the c
,om- munity insists.
real Enforcement Of the Law.