Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-03-22
LATE SLEEPERS CURB
PENN ATHLETIC WORK,
CHARGE OF STUDENTS
Trustees May Be Petition
ed for Earlier Morning
Glasses - University
Hampered by S m a | |
Field Space.

University of Pennsylvania students
particularly those who are candidates for
the Quakers' various athletic teams. are
conducting a systematic campaign to OBJ
tain better conditions for their recreation
and athletic competition. There are two
reforms they seek. one is for a second
and bigger athletic field for recreation
and practice purposes. The other Is to
hive recitation an dlecture hours begin at
! o'clock. instead OF .. as at present.
rhe change in recitation hours they
want to begin not later than next rail-.
rhs new athletic field can't come too
soon. but the students, realizing the linn
tied acreage the University controls. are
willing to take it when they can get II.
The argument for the 5 o'clock hours Is
that under the . O'Clock opening It Ia
necessary TO have classes so late IN the
afternoon that practice in such sports as
football baseball and crew, which re-
auire that the entire team shall work
together. cannot begin before I O'Clock,
and frequently not before o'clock, 1t
also makes a recreation period. for which
the students have long clamorcd, an I'M
possibility.
The coaches have blamed pennsyI,anIa's poor
showing on the gridiron OF recent years to the
inability Of the men TO practice together, and
Coach Nickalls. OF the crew. hardly let's
week go by without railing at the conditions
under which the oarsmen have to work.
Although the charge has not been publicly
made the students blame the faculty for not
giving them s o'clock hours. such change
out OF bed an hour earlier than now. There
are also some students, notably those who live
In the city. who object to starting work at
The agitation has now reached crisis ~
the circulation OF petitions to the faculty and
board OF trustees requesting o'clock hours
from the opening of the University in Sep.em-
per until December !. then reNerLing 70 the
9, o'clock schedule from december to March
Is. and finishing the school year from March
- TO commencement with o'clock periods.
spring there be no laboratory or c.ass work
after o'clock and that definite hour BE-
hxed for the noon lunch.
The limited acreage for athletics makes Il
necessary for the various teams to work amid
place the students have for their athletics or
their recreation. 1t contains less than FIVE
acres. while all Of Pennsylvania 5 rivals have
anywhere from 30 to 10 acres for their sports
and recreation Just the other day the Football
spring practice because the University has no
held available. the baseball and track
great handicap TO the Quaker eleven this fall.
for all Its rivals will have had six weeks OF
spring preliminary practice.
Pennsylvania suffers severely from compsri-
with her rivals. Yale has two fields. with
total acreage OF 10 acres. Michigan has two
athletic hei.s, one devoted to varsity and the
other to interclsss sports. with nearly SO acres
in all. Harvard has two fields Of nearly ~
acres. Cornell has three fields and nearly 80
acres devoted to athletic purposes Both Dart
mouth and Princeton have only a small proper
ton OF the student body at Pennsylvania. vet
these institutions have between 30 and 30 acres
zach for their athletics. In addition to which
princeton men have a recreation period which
lasts from 80 for the remainder Of the after
noon.
Four big universities begin their recitation
periods at o'clock. They are Yale. Dart
mouth, Cornell and Michigan.