The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-02-03
DENOUNCES FUUTBBLL
 IN HIS ANNUAL REPORT
Continued from First Page')

.-1All these evils of football have now descended from the colleges into the secondary schools to purge themselves working great moral mischief. It is clearly the duty of the colleges, which | have permitted these monstrous evils to grow up and to become intense to | purge themselves of such immoralities, and to do what they can to help the secondary schools to purpe themselves also. Intercollegiate and interscholas- l tic football ought to be prohibited un- til 8 reasonable game has been formu- | lated and thoroughly exemplihed Tn the practice of individual institutions. It is childish to suppose that the athletic 1 . authorities which have permitted loot ball to become brutal, cheating, de- | moralizing game can be trusted to re- form it.'' Services of Professor E. s Woods and
 J. K. Paine. The report opens with a reference to the death of Professor Edward 5. Wood of the Medical school, of whom the president says, after tracing the steps of his professional career: His
 
 was as an expert witness in murder trials He had remarkable knowl- edge of poisons and of the means of detecting their presence in the human body, and had also made very care ful study of blood stains, As witness he was quiet, imperturbable, and evil dently concerned only to declare the truth. His chacacter, quite as much as his knowledge and skill, lent weight to his testimony" To Professor John K. Paine, who retired last year from the professorship of music at Harvard af- ter over forty years servica, President Eliot gives the chief credit for the de- velopment of music as a university subject. "The creation of the depart ment of music in Harvard university" he says, lis all the greater aLhieve- ment, because it was a new field of work for the university, n11 supported by any living educational traditions like that which supports instruction in Hebrew, Greek, Latin, mathematics and philosophy, and not especially con- genial to the evolved or opened-out .Puritans who for hundred years have had the management of Harvard col- lege."
 Board of Preachers.
 President Eliot points out the signi- fear ce of rece 1t vent on the unl- versity which has mol thus far attract ed general attention, namely the suc- cession of Professor Edward c. Moore, a Congregational minister, to the chairmanship of the board of preach CTS upon Professor Peabody's resigna- tion of that function. For about ninety years,-that is, ever since the college has maintained religious ser- vices distinct from those of the First Parish church in Cambridge,-these services have been in the hands of mem bers of the Unitarian body; although since 1881 ministers of many different have been systematical- ly employed as preachers in the college pulpit"
 Proposed Alliance With Institute of
 Technology.
 The report places on record the es- sential facts and documents in connec- tion with the negotiation for an allf- ance with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. No new facts are dis closed, but the negotiation is summed up in these words, which define more clearly tran before the precise relations of the parties to the negotiation;
 Tt will be observed that the negotia- tion between the university and the in- stitute never passed out of the hands of the joint committee, and never ex- tended beyond the formation of a ten tative plan, which the two corporations agreed to consider provided certain de- cisions of the supreme court should be first obtained. The president and fel- lows never had the opportunity to dis cuss the matter with the corporation of the institute and never had an uncon- ditioned proposal to lay before the fac- ulty of arts and sciences or the board of overseers. For these reasons there was, from the side of the university, no public discussion on the subject The negotiations failed because of an unfa- vorable decision of the court concern ing the right of the institute to sell the land occupied by it on Boylston street, Boston"
 Teachers Endowment Fund
 President Eliot relates the series of events which led to the raising of the endowment of nearly two and one-half millions last year through the efforts of the alumni and friends of the uni- versity, the purpose of the fund being to increase salaries in the faculty of arts and sciences; or, as one subscrip- tion paper for one million dollars put it. 'fthe Income to be used for no other purpose than the support of the teach ing force of the college" He points out that the teachers benefitting by the new endowment are a remarkably young group of men, half of the facul- ty, not counting teachers holding annu- al appointments, being less than forty- one years old and only one-thirteenth over sixty. President Eliot's comments on a table showing the number of teachers of various ranks at certain pe- riods in the last twenty-five years, have a bearing on a popular belief that students in small college have the advantage of contact with older teach CTS than fall to the lot of students in