The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-01-08
That Is War Time Economy
Kansas Colleges Want.
Heads of Institutions in Annual
Council Here Today.
ELIMINATE BASEBALL GAMES
Reduction of Salaries o.
Coaches Also Is Urged.
Football Only Intercollegiate
Game Not in Danger.

Elimination of college baseball, re-
duction of expense attached to inter
collegiate a h / ct s, lowering of
coaches and other athletic officials
salaries. extension of inter class ath-
letics and application of college ath-
letics to the entire student body thru
military training, all for the duration
of the war, were discussed today by
the annual council of the Kansas Col
lege association in Topeka. AS a re-
suit the council named a committee
and instructed it to draw a resolution
placing the associations approval on
elimination of college baseball as a
war measure, encouragement of ath-
leticS beneficial to the entire student
body, the lowering of athletic officials
salaries and cutting down the num-
Der of inter collegiate games The
resolution is to be thrown into the
council for final approval late this
afternoon and may contain other
measures.
A dozen or more presidents and
other officials of Kansas colleges at
tended the council here with Chancel-
lor Frank Strong, of Kansas univer-
slty, presiding as president and Dean
! d. L. McEachron, of Washburn COL
| lege, in the secretarys chair
Devote Much Time to Sport.
! The entire morning session, after
formal business had been disposed of,
and a part of the afternoon session
was devoted to a discussion of the
wartime affect upon college sports.
! Dean McEachron asserted that the
athletic material in the Washburn
student body suffered a decrease of
from 40 to so per cent in 1917, after
the war began. Presidents of other
colleges asserted that they were up
against the same condition
( Chancellor Strong urged against any
elimination of college athletics, saying
that the government is urging all coll
leges to keep the work to it's highest
/ point of efficiency
/ We should have wider athletic
activities he said. mot for the chosen
sas university we are giving all stu
dents, both men and women athletic
training. The men are given military
training. The women take physical
! exercises and Red Cross work"
The university head, however, be-
, lieved that the charges made by
coaches and game officials are toe
| high. Dean McEachron and others
i present agreed with him, saying that
the coach and official salaries were
working burden on athletic activi-
i ties. More extensive control of col
lege athletics by the faculties was also
discussed and Informally endorsed.
More Week End Games.
There was a tendency among the
college officials to urge that more
games be scheduled at week-endS
making the custom of breaking into
classes less observab BILE.
The meeting here is an all day one
Credits given college students who en-
list or are drafted were also scheduled
for discussion - is afternoon. The
council announced it would try tc
work out some comprehensive system
of granting credits in such cases, CIV
ing the individual schools their per-
ogative in adopting any plans that
might be discussed. Chancellor Strong
also discussed The War-League OF
American Colleges this afternoon.
In an address on How Far Should
We Curtail the Expense of the Social
Life of Our Institutions During the
War;" Dean Willard, of the Kansas
Agricultural college, declared that
there should be little difference in
wartime and peace-time social activi-
ties in colleges. He asserted that some
needless expense could be cut out
saying:
There is no doubt much in the
manners and customs of polite society
that, as practiced by many, is sheer
superficiality yet which had its origin
in consideration for the comfort and
happiness of others, and is observed
legitimately for this purpose. To be
educated in body and mind, and ever
consecrated in spirit, while being KEEP
in ignorance of social conventions 1.
to dwarf one, and to handicap him fol-
life. How often do we see ones use
fulness restricted, and his happiness