Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-01-17

that those entertaining that view dominate.
No Yale authority can be induced to ex-
or to comment on the Harvard action.
Yale May Retrench.
1t is we'll known that Yale contempIates
action. but 1t is understood that this will
simply ne retrenchment such as smaller
expenditures. fewer contests. more general
participation in sport through the introduce
ton of interclass contests and similar,
moves. The announcement was made at
New Haven three weeks ago that on the
reassembling of the students after the
christmas holidays the, faculty would take
up the question of foot ball.
The plan that was then indicated as the
one that the extremists at Yale favored
was the establishment of q series of inter-
class games continuing during the season
usually devoted to small, so-c3lled pre-
paratory games and the complete prohibit
ton of any varsity squad: the limitation
of varsity contests to two games, probably
one with Princeton and another with Har-
ward. and the selection of the eleven to
represent Yale In these two games from the
interclass teams. In other words, the
scheme is practically the adoption of the
English system in vogue at Oxford and
Cambridge. But there is no at Yale
who has the idea that such plan could be
adopted and successfully enforced this year.
1t Is believed, though this will be the idea
adopted and that gradual reduction of the
it is actually realized.
The plans of Princeton are not Indicated
further than that the authorities favor a
reduction in the general scheme of athletics
until they again are brought within reason.
Few Games for Penn.
An opportunity was afforded last evening
to discover the trend of sentiment at Penn
sylvania The alumni society of New York
held its annual banquet at the Hotel Man
haitian. and Provost Charles c. Harrison
and Dean Josiah H. Penniman attended. In
conversation before the dinner Provost
Harrison said he proposed to refer in no
way to athletics publicly. as too much had
already been said. Dean Penniman referred
to the general conditions, saying that every
one realized that the elaborate organize
ton Of athletics had exceeded the bounds of
reason until the tail was now wagging the
dog. He said there was disposition on
the part Of those in charge of college ath
letics to realize this fact and to retrench
of their own initiative, and that all the
faculty appeared to be called upon to do
was to see that the curtailment was extern
sive enough to secure the ends desired
without being radical In the beginning
to stifle the life of athletic activity, and
so kill a very beneficial factor in university
life.
An athletic authority attending said that
plans had already been perfected by the
mana cement of athletics at Penn to reduce
lHe SCHSuuieS, So tiidt piobdbly eight ioot
ball games would be played and less atten-
ton given to elaborate training programs.
It is also purposed to develop wider inter-
university competition
Pennsylvania is deeply affected by the
withdrawal Of Harvard from foot ball. as
it deprives her of her biggest game, leaving
her, in all probability. without the POSSIBLE
ity OF filling the void as it is likely neither
Yale nor Princeton would care to meet the
Quakers in opposition to the trend toward
restricting contests.
With the leaders planning such a pro-
gram the smaller colleges must necessarily
follow suit, so that already the foot ball
agitation has proved effective in it's main
purpose to eradicate the too prominent
competitive spirit and reduce the extrava-
gance of the whole system.