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COLLEGE ATHLETICS
intercollegiate Meeting December %
Will Discuss important Questions

legiate Athletic association will be
held at the Murray Hill Hotel in New
! York December 2S. Several impor
tant matters relating to the college
athletics will be discussed and the
meeting gives every promise of being
of unusual interest. TIE association
comprises more than sixty universit-
les and colleges but number of APP
plications for membership will be act
ed upon before the annual meeting.
Each of the colleges will send dele
7 gate and in addition there will be
many visiting delegates from insti-
buttons interested in the work but not
yet members.
The objects of the association are
to put collegiate athletics on com
mon sense basis throughout America
to encourage sport for sports sake
and to support various rules commit
tees-particularly those for football
and baseball
The reports of several Presidents
of prominent Eastern universities de-
crying the extreme prominence OF
sports in the modern collegiate life
mas stirred up the officials of the In
tercollegiate Athletic association and
considerable disappointment has been
manifested by them that these heads
fail to give their hearty support TO
the organized movement for their pro
per control In discussing this phase
of college athletics prominent mem
Der of the association said:
For some unknown reasons GER
tain heads of. big institutions in the
Eastdo not openly favor what seems to
us a sane effort to bring about re-
forms they themselves announce as
most necessary. BY Withholding the
influence and prestige that would re-
suit from their institutions belonging
to this National association they de-
lay the accomplishment of these need
ed reforms. II is to be hoped in the
interest of college sport that they
will either yield to the repeated re-
quests to join in the work Or cease
complaining Of conditions they are
unwilling to assist in correcting.
zone of the most prominent speak
erS- In the coming convention is DIR.
Sergeant of Harvard whose subject
will be Athletic Competitions 1t is
well known that DR. Sergeant believes
the competitive feature of college ath-
letics has been overdeveloped There
is a great contrast between collegiate
athletics in the United States and
England. We take the subject more
seriously than our cousins across the
water and in consequence we are ac-
cused OF entertaining and even of over
anxiety TO win, vita the attendant
doubtful methods which such a state
of mind would be apt to induce.
"The treatment of this subject by
man of DR.. Sargeants great reputa-
ton will be of great interest and val
ne His address will be published by
the intercollegiate association and
circulated among all the colleges and
in the United States. II
is by such educational methods as
these that our organization hopes to
influence college athletics for their
betterment."
Although the association has be-
come a most powerful facor in college
athletics ii has been somewhat handi-
capped in it's work by the refusal of
certain universities in the East TO Of
fcially countenance the movement
and become members of the associa-
ton. The college summer baseball
question has been we'll handled by the
association and other subjects of
equal Importance have been treated
with conservative judgment and UNI
success.
Capt. Palmer e. Pierce the presi-
dent of the intercollegiate Athletic
association has been largely instrum-
entail in effecting many important re-
forms in college athletics. His ser
vices have been appreciated by his
election to the presidency
each year, despite his protests and oft
desire to have the position
filled by some other person.