Evening star., 1922-03-28

nave VentuTeo 10 suggest, ne
said. that undergraduate games
should be played by undergraduates.
managed by undergraduates, coached
by undergraduates.
Few Care to Pay Men.
ITO the first of these suggestions no
objection has, SO far as l know. been
made in words. In this field it Is not
words that speak. Men do not Justify
results. I am glad to say. however.
that apparently in most of the col
leseS with which we play these men
are losing influence. Very few of US
care to pay men to play on the col
ITO my second suggestion Mr..
Moore has replied that it is imprac-
teal, in that under graduates could
not possibly manage their athletic ac-
confuse issues and SO to miss the real
point. / know that Harvard under
graduates ought not to try to manage
the Harvard stadium. but the point
seems to me irrevelant. The one es-
sential change in athletic management
which is needed is to cut the connec-
tion between games and gate receipts
The college or university should own
and manage it's athletic field just as
1t owns and manages all other equip
ment.
All the vast business of stadiums
and bowls should be cut off from the
games themselves. 1t is to the con-
nectfon between these two things that
5s, 1ne can trace the exaggesations in ath
year the exaggeration becomes greater.
Declares Ideas Confused.
ITO my third suggestion Prof.
Mendell has objected, saying that
since in our intellectual work We
furnish the best teaching therefore
in sports we should give the very
best teaching that there is His
argument seems to me to rest upon
a confusion between teaching and
coaching.
There is not a college in the coun-
try which does not recognize the
distinction. A teacher tries to de-
relop in a student command over
subject A coach prepares a pupil to
meet a specific test If we are to
extend and develop our teaching,
does it follow that we must also ex-
the field of studies every teacher
would. I think. argue in exactly the
opposite direction.
The college should furnish physi-
cal training for all students; should
teach them games. should develop in
skill IN doing it. But does 1t follow
that the college should coach them
when they engage in conflict with
another college? No man who knows
"n6I sport Is ~dHlS auOtHSE HAL
paid to win his game for him. And
that IL what our present coaching
system does.
"Mr. Moore and Mr.. Mendell seem
to mo to be arguing for a mode Of
procedure that is dying itself by its
own absurdity. "A game is thing
for a player himself to play. But
we have made our games vast enter
prises, with which others have alto
Eether too much to do. 1t is time
that undergraduates should again
coach and manage and play their
own games"
President Angel Partly Agrees.
President James r. Angel of Yale
fH AiS address said he was partly
IN Ggfeement with President Meikle-
4ohn's statements. He said many of
the statements are practical and have
been in operation for some time in
some colleges In this country.
! President Charles A. Richardson Of
Union College. Schenectady. N. z.
lrattacked the "jazz tendency Of the
There is a spirit of lawlessness
, prevailing" he said. I'VE hnd II in
music, art. sculpture and everything.
The elements of grace. poise, self
festrsint and proportion are sadly
lacking"
some Of the Jazz atmosphere" He
described the wild. "disproportionate
enthusias asm for athletics"
to bring about this sort of thing by
sbelittling the classics. by saying they
were not essential things" he de-
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