New-York tribune., 1906-11-11
BUTLER ON FOOTBALL.
CONDEMNS GAME AGAIN
Columbia President Quotes Seneca
University Prosperous.

Nicholas Murray Butler. in his annual report TO
tne trustees of Columbia University. which was
issued yesterday. announced the improvements in
the university during the year and went into de-
tails regarding the football situation Several de-
partments which have hitherto not been in ther
own homes have been able to occupy them. The
ochooi or Mines of the most important depart
ments. has been able to occupy it's own buildings
curing the year St PauTs Chapel. the university
chapel has been practically completed. and the
report says:
~ Is proposed that addition 10 the daily chapel
be SSerDlee OF twenty minutes at midday there shlll
at which il Is not unreaso1ab 70 expect are
families as well as OF students.
President Butler dwell at some length upon the
need OF the university for more money. Atteg
going into considerable detail the report says
$l2CoHoo is needed. Os this s5G00J0O is provide
additional salaries for the members of the faculty.
The report treats of athletic sports. and par tcI-
iarly football, at length. ard some appropriate
quotations from the old Roman Senator Seneca.
are given After referring to the trouble in 1908
and the action Of the university President Butler
says:
OF od6a H. bG Ssd game
which the large majority of students could not
weight and unusual physical strength of others
swiftness Of foot and highly trained powers OF at
almost complete absorption and exceptional physi-
Win sound pqncpe nad Of eoe 20 0 sport e
athletic exercise That these contests were glad-
years of the game plainly proves After nine
teen hundred years the words of Seneca were again
Man, who ought TO be sacred to his fellow man,
him. NJ" Roast him Ix What makes @ him % 50 sh9 Of
jumping on the gridiron? Why doesn't he knock
Do you not understand this much: that dis
graceful exhibitions react on those who permit
Seneca was right The most serious effects OF
intercollegiate football were not worked upon the
participants. but upon the spectators and upon
II is the strong desire of the university author-
ties TO do for the development OF athletic
sports than has been done in the past. 1t is their
wish so to arrange and adjust university exercises
ample time for physical exercise and outdoor
sport. and may be encouraged 70 engage In them
Of view If intercollegiate contests were less nu-
merous and less important. and II intracollegtate
contests came to excite more iTs>erest and atten-
ton
President Butler urged the construction OF a
Columbia stadium and said that the plan was a
great Improvement for the university. The esti-
mated cost of the studium. fashioned somewhat
after that at Harvard. is given as 100000
That the university is in a thriving condition IS
shown by the fact that President Butler reports
TO aid in carrying in extending its work.
Three of the gifts were for the endowment of pro-
fessorships. the George Blumenthal Fund to endow
a chair OF politics. the Edward r. Carpenter Fund
TO endow a chair the history Of civilization, and
the James Speyer Fund to endow the Theodore
Roosevelt professorshp the University of Berlin.
In reference TO the latter fund President Butler
told of the success of the interchange of professors
between Germany and America from 1904 TO the
present time. He said:
A personal or institutional exchange OF this sort
has significance and value of its own, but 1t seemed
the full benefit OF the interchange of professors
was to be gained