The sun., 1918-12-07
HIGH LIGHTS AND SHADOW
in ALL SPHERES OF SPORT
BY DANIEL.

n TOW that the war is wei and the colleges are free to resume par
- tclpaton in sport o a more extensive scale than has been possible
a return. Some educators there are who hold that the experience of colleges
with the Student Army Training Corps and the curbing Of the old inter-
collegiate athletic system have demonstrated all the more forcibly that the
colleges had fallen into evil ways when the war came upon u IS They
would have the colleges lay major stress OF intramural sport and do away
as much as possible with competition with outsiders
he old question given prominence ley early IN the week when
Gould Schurman, president of Cornell. advocated the substitution Of
port amons thu men In Cornell for thu oil inercolegiate variety N tn
combination OF a certain amount of military drill While " e recognize that
intercollegiate sport Is nOt what 1t should be-, that there Is pieny OF
con tm lr reform TN changes must make ercohegla athe.cs a oew ua,
of intercollegiate athletics, and not some new variety OF ram
sport. The college stars who died OF the batteheds of France were lot
developed in intramural sport
DR.. schurman finds few nonfacury supporters ven in his own uni
ID. schurmans proposition, declares "a like suggestion would be to abolish
underestimate journalism and the musical clubs n ubs,ta SN spe.uN
compulsory English composition and, choir practice" Say III Ne"s'
Proposed Legislation Is Ill Advised.
THE alumni will feel, IL we are not greatly mistaken. that the proposed
resolution is Ill advised, that 1t has no yet been demonstrated ta inter-
collegiate athletics is unmtlgated and unmihgabe evil. that intramura sports
"A nev take the place of intercollegiate athletics and should rather De
developed as a feeder to the latter. that i needs only slight ead1us o,m.enn..
to make intercollegiate athletics a satisfactory and desirable hsuu a ION
that the recent experiences Of the army and navy. where's athletes nd an-
letics have made good. amply warrant the continuance OF the system per per
haIs slightly revised and supervised Is ormery' rather nan "' "'""
ment. .,,
Nor has it been demonstrated that the handful Of highly trained
a menace. The record If the athletes "a b easily inspected and the athletes
themselves subjected to the usual rules for students. as we are N HW rs"ra
hey nave peen we are nor pnu eua a-aIuo.I, atbletcs bet
Of other universities. In Cornell universtys ntercohesba. am hn at1ats.s
scholastic record has been watched at least as carefully a as nat oi
other student. ~
teen year II service, with a salary list cut to a minimum, 1t has proouceo
an insItution uccessful tercoItegat athletics, that is respected by its
cornettors md Loved hv m asst majority of Cornell alumni and students.
and during these years with n o expense for buildings and grounds ~hrh
we're gifts it has lot laid up N cent. The gate receipts have all gone
into the product. Could intramural athletics do otherwise and oud mira
mural athletics do it better? ,-.
Intercollegiate athletics is popular with student and alumnus. lntra-
mural and compulsory exercise have not a yet demonstrated ten
potential attracuveness 10 heir satisfying powers to the san extent as Is
Intercollegiate athletics. We suspect that The proposed sneuse. a.
take much OF the JOY out of life without producing a compromising Ia
vantage. A like suggestion would be to abolish undergraduate r urnsns Snm ru
the rnuAcal clubs and substitute respectively compulsory Ensn'h o0"po-
stion and choir practice