The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-06-23
COLLEGE ATHLETICS.
President OF Cornell Comments INC"
- Tribute to Roosevelt and Cleveland.

ITHACA. N. Y. June 2o.-President Schur-
man In his address to the graduating Glasses
at Cornell University to-day. after en-
phasizing the fact that the object for the
sake of which institutions OF learning are
founded and continue to exist is intellectual
culture" continued as follows:
At this point the critic raises another query
He wants to know whether our colleges ana
universities have not dethroned Apollo ana
the muses. and set up the image OF Hercules
with his club. He reads In tho newspapers
OF diamonds and gridrons and tracks ana
courses until he wonders what has become
OF books and laboratories and the stuoious
cloister. Indeed, the charge Is made oy
men who should know better that the pur-
suit Of knowledge At our colleges ana UNI
versties has been psralyzed by devotion 10
athletic sports.
Well, shall speak only OF Cornell. because
know the facts at Cornell. 1t Is true.
admit, that on that last Saturday OF May
when tho navy OF japan was sinking the
battleships and cruisers OF Russia IN the
Straits Of Tsu Shima. Cornell students were
winning over their rivals In the great UNI
versities of the East four splendid victories
both on land and watsT Nov Sst6bsIety
Soss yslor tas9e + ndeed VIZ
and say that 1 fully indorse Pr, Johnso ,hs
sentiment tnat ahyth1lR "hcn teheiIh ~, &c, 20 &c
y" IS p OF RaF 3S do wat WE had hitherto
thought, IMPOSSIBLE T. Of the Utmost value.
garded, are not an evil but a go99d: not az
Cornell at any rate, can II be said thnt they
the IS spss .f body OF
dents than ours in America or any where else
have stll to hear q IT, But it Is also TT trv Ne
been suborcinated to work and study, a
student who fails TO pass his e1amihations
is removed from the university. no m mate,
to belong to.
In taFi athletics are mere % rs nGdent oS Of
LIE ana YORK at vofae and m "nr .sophomores
man has body through which ne mind
Vigorous. the mind cannot do its work: New
athletics and intercollegiate games are i nS
natural outcome OF this attention "h''h
Cornell pays to the physical man.
Addressing the ladies and gentlemen OF
the graduating classes, he said In part:
Let me venture to predict that the older
and the wiser you grow the more emphasis
1 hay on wSoat as
Intellectual power, and refined taste and si nd
CANT culture are but as sounding brass ana
''N have r. recently cent? been much Impressed With
two splendid Illustrations OF the influence OF
moral HsTs th9HsRRe
recently undertook and successfully accom-,
plished? 1 mean. Of course. the bringing OF
Russia and Japan together with view 70
tho ending OF the carnage In far on Man
chura No man without superb COURAGE
would have essayed such q well nigh hope.
less task: no man without the inspiration OF
an honest purpose could have plucked the
flower safety from that nettle. danger Inc
most beloved and admired OF Americans. ms
strength lay in the worlds confidence In his
integrity. his fairness and his devotion to
righteous ends Character has summoned
the moral power Of the nations TO his aid;
idol n,tf ,ltaru TOR ia
that OF meddler and mischief maker;
Or let me take another example. Here Is
vast corporation. holding In trust Tor widows
and orphans unimaginable millions Of dollars.
But the best asset the Equitable Assurance
company ever had was the spotless reputa :,
ton OF Henry B Hyde. the man who created
the business. SO long as he lived the COM
pany was as solid as Gibraltar Within the
last six months we have seen IL become an
object OF universal distrust. its business
paralyzed. its officers severely condemned
BY its own directors. Its organization rapidly
dsintegrating. and the syecter Of receiver
ship or Of bankruptcy confronting II In q
future apparently not very remote.
Now what saved the Equitable Assurance
company | say il has been saved by the
grace and potency OF character which built
il up Stronger than all the forces OF criti-
cisin, of dsintegration, OF personal rivalries.
even Of faulty and therefore DANGEROUS
organization, is the name Of that sturdy.
honest, tried and tested and absolutely re-
liable American, Grover Cleveland