The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-07-18
.LEH|GH AWARDS
SCHOLARSHIPS
FOR Drawn
University President Declares
Strong Men Are Needed in
Modern Industrial Life.
Rv CHARLEs RUSS RICHARDS.

BY CHARLES RUSS RlChACDS.
BETHLEHEM, Pa, July lin
its decision to offer twenty-fou
scholarships every year to young
men who are in need of financial
assistance, Lehigh university has
frankly recognized that such men
may be divided into two groups.
There are those whose chief claim
for recognition is intellectual brllll-
ancy and those whose record shows
them to possess a good mind in
vigorous body. Being primarily a
technical institution, Lehigh is
especially concerned in producing
men who will meet the require
ments of modern industry. The
majority of our graduates are en-
gineers, men who will go into the
plants, the mines and the shops
where they must win the confidence
and respect of the men they direct
as well as of their employers. The
engineer does a mans work and
he needs the character, the Judge
ment and the physical strength Of
a man. Lehigh's attitude towards
athletics is clear cut and open.
FOR REAL STUDENTS ONLY.
No inducements of any kind will
be offered to athletes who seek
merely to exploit their physical
prowess under guise Of college men.
Lehigh athletic teams are and will
be composed of young men who
chose Lehigh as the best school
to fit them for their life work and
who are so we'll equipped mentally
that the time taken by athletic
endeavor does not cause tn e ir
SCHOLARSHIP standing to suffer.
Lehigh recognizes that the grind
type" is not the product that modern
society and industry needs. A train
ed intellect in a vigorous body or
to the community than intellectual
brilliancy rendered partially inef-
fective by poor housing.
There is nothing new in recogniz-
ing exceptional mental ability in
well rounded men. This type will
always be recognized and encouraged.
But the recognition of Unborn quail
ties of leadership as demonstrated
by athletic achievement, coupled
with good scholastic progress is a
significant sign Of the trend of
education
PIONEER DAYS ARE PAST.
The pioneer days in America are
past and there are no longer such
opportunities for the development
of rugged manhood as were afforded
during that period when our fore
fathers were conquering the wilder
ness. Furthermore, the development
of modern life has resulted in a
gradual but definite change in the
nature of our population from one
which one hundred or even fifty
years ago was chiefly rural, to
one which in 1920 was SIS per cent
urban. With the change there has
been an increasing disposition to
take physical exercise vicariously,
with results which may be disastrous
to proper development of the race
This was shown during the war
when an astonishingly large number
of men of draft uge were rejected
for physical reasons.
1t is to be hoped the time will
come when a system of intramural
athletics may be developed in the
colleges under which every boy will
participate in some kind of vigorous
outdoor sport. When such practice
becomes established athletic leader
ship among students will be re.
cognized as equal in Importance to
intellectual leadership.