The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-03-22

the university ideal had been one OF
putting togsthSr the -scattered pieces
u college and university life President
Wilson said. He continued: There L.
nothing. therefore. We dread so much
a. the creation Of additional separate
pieces. We particularly dread anything
that would segregate the body % grad
nate students or create an impression
u sepArAteneas on the part Of those who
"eTs giving srsdGh,.s int r,lsa,on. ~.
danger Of being supplied with instru-
mentRlities which win not he suitable to
the purposes ~e have 10 LONG and labor
aware that Princeton - On trial -
university. She has been attempting
great thinga by way Of leadership. Hhe
has taken the initiative in things Ina which
she might he said to have no experience
siie hiss come 80 an exceedingly crittcei
point In her development where ~ the
conceptions she has been working upon
should bs embarrassed or thrust To one
side. che might fall into the sort OF con
fusion which Nould mean failure. II
Is practically Impossible for those who
stand out SIDE university administration
10 understand how vital TO every interest
IL IL that ws should not only do the right
hing bat do II In the right way Only
intimate oontar, with the thing itself
can show the hest ways To act, and our
only possible justification for insisting
upon freedom la details u that Ne have
made test OF the details and know what
IL L. necessary 20 do. 4 seemingly slight
deviation from the plan might throw
u Awry. anal We should have to begin over
agPin 20 construct out 81 a new miscellany
a new system
Before President Wilson spoke George
p Brewer, president of the Alumni
Association. called on Vii Roper
athletic instructor At PTtnceton. TO tell
49, "A IN. ha max
fall Reform OF things athletic az well
a. scholastic seemed to he IN the air and
Mr. Roper announced ~ once that he
believed that the system Of choosing men
for the teams and % coaching them was
to blame for Prince.on's defeats.
The teams. he said. were overcoached
Coaches lid all the thinking and turned
what was after all only q game INTO q
highly specialized business Mr.. Roper
Said there would he NO large corps OF
coaches On the Rridirop neat fall. and that
while he realized that there were plenty 81
PRINCETON men who knew a. much about
the job as he did. nevert helesa he had been
chosen 20 run things and he meant io ~"
u the best he could.
The nlisiak in choosing the men Tor
the teams. Mr.. Roper thought. arose from
TOO much attention being paid 70 prepare
torv school -Atarp who had their places
handed over 20 then, without having 10
work for them. We tell them how good
they are he SAID -apd then Yale heals
us- The r~asOn. he said. was thai the
men on the Yale teams worked little
harder
Ismp- " Nlexander. former pre-l !.
den, Of ne board Of Trustees. introduced
a. Prncston 'rocteT. made gree
ful speeCh in pr4tse of Princeton and
PreSideU, Wilson He said th-t he could
ssv Wilson ard me- IN the SEINE sense
thrt h.a friend NcCurdv onc@ spoke OF
sargent tho psinter u ssemed that
~ rEept had nainted Mr. McCundys por-
,rait end had fs.thfhliy depicted whi,e
epot IN he sitters u-tache. which was
ol ha-wi.s black Mr. Met urdv protested
th-t th. spo' was oniy there durinEP pro
ce-s ~ growing grsv p1d IN he didn {
WRIT "a 20 down ~ posisrtv ~ thft
uiebr id wFy bat S'rgert would not
snr pgs = virc he nFtpted WHIT he
saw ~ Mr. NC'ur,iy Ro' >tepladder
md = rot ~ b,gck Vgint ard h'ncksd Oui
he sp0t Then n ching NJ. AeNsn-
d.r's att-Tt Bp ', the portrait he de-
scr,h~d y - tho worS of Sargent and
NcCurdy
Parker n HaYlav ~ the Princeton
yraduate council sXpla red the workings
= tra' bSdy aud also suggested nst The
council did not approve 80 the pr'-sen'
v-atched ,outrovsrar- over President
Nilso:,s plsns fUr me ILivers,ty and
thought " he'd taste. 20 Ssy the l-sst fnl
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