The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-07-14
MUST GIVE LESS
TINT: TO SPORTS D
President Carroll d. Wright Says
Competitive Games Should
BE Prohibited.
COLLEGE OF THE FUTURE y
Speaker Declares ,rhereaMust BE
a Shortening ofi3tlie
Term.
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3. pORTLAND, MAINE, July 13--Prcsi-
dent Carroll y. Wright, Of Clark College
mid Professor Herbert e. Mills. OF Vassar
College, were tho speakers Il, the closing
session tonight OF the seventy-ilfth an
nual convention OF the American lnsti-
itutc OF Instruction. ,'rhc selection OF
Walter Il. Ranger, of montpelier Yer
mont. as president of the associat ION, 10
succeed President Reyes "of Hartford, and
the re election Of the other officers con-
stit,,tcd the most Important business
transacted to-day.I President Wright
snoko on ",rhe College OF tho Future
lilo said III part:
t"Thc college of the future Will pre-
I sent elements as different from those
present Institutions from the college
Of sixty years ago. Tho expansion
s OF the period required for professional
work, and the extenslon5of the illgh
school c'lIIitulln, makes e, It d'l i,i,n.
1 in educational work. Crowded on q
both sides, 1t viii be necessary for
4 the college to so adjust its work, as
not to cripple the high school, and at /
y ne M s%S Fne p the ShRein
schools. and in this adjustment Of. the
be maintained In their integrity,
Shorten College Term.
..ln order to avoid the pressure up,
ward from the high schools and
downward from the professional
schools. there must be a shortening or
not agree, but the leng thenlng of the
term of professional schools Compels
some REIMBURSEMENT somewhere. Presi-
dent 1Iadley would shorten the term
In secondary schools. cannot con
slider this advisable, for the secondary
schools arc the colleges OF the com
mon people On the other hand
President Eliot adjusts the work to
the three years basis. AT Harvard
a man can take the degree of a. 3.
{ in three years but this work must
represent the same amount OF attain
nlent OF power required which the
a. B. taken in four years.
would 1t not be well TO reverse
the custom of Harvard, which IS Tor
the four year course, with emporium
ity. to take the a. B. degree in three
years, provided the requirements are
met, to the custom Of providing Il three
years course primarily, and then DE-
mand that students who are unable
TO meet the requirements shall re-
iiain the fourth year? believe THIS
latter method will work more evenly
and with less fricsion and disturbance
IN tre ordinary work of the colleges
than the other method.
Competitive Sports.
p 0"But there are grave difficulties at
tending the adjus tment of the cur
(, ricrlum to the three years course.
There must be. In the first place, i
largo and devoted faculty: the stu
dents must be Industrious; there
must be IAN elimination or waslclul
methods Of instruction. There must !
he changes in the methods OF exam
nations. AT present students have
to spend from three to five weeks dur-
ing the academic year In examinations. +
force, which should be applied to reg
tlar work. so there should be no eN-
an,inations ordered resulting In the
suspension of the regular college
work. This can be done with the
cooperation OF the faculty. A pro-
lessor or instructor who cannot pass
intelligenly upon the standing or 7
student without the cram ana srind
of an examination is not Just the man
for his place This feature Ia; alone n,n y,
Il great change in the nttainments
OF the students themselves.
'rherc should be freedom from me
cSaction and distraction OF compctl-
,hibi,ion of competitive games. Such
games are an Injustice TO the large
majority Of students. Athletics should
be conducted for their own SAKE for
sport and for physical training, ana
when they arc conducted for these
pllrposcs-icgltimate and laudablc----
they will assume their proper posi-,
ton in college work of the future; and
II may be that athletics OF some X nd
properly regulated should be required
as part Of the Students work IN
college.
,.Certainly n college having three,
years course-which will be the GUS y
tom In the ruture--cal,not afford the
time necessary for competitive games.
Arguments relative to the dcmora!lz-
ing influence Of such games, and 70 (
p. the physical consequences or severe
contests are ample it seems to mo, 70
warrant any college In taking n
course that will reduce athletics TO
their proper standing