Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-05
ACTION SUGGESTED
TO END HYPOCRISY
Hope Carnegie Foundation
Report May Help Solve
Sports Problem.
BY LAWRENCE PERRY.

A TLANTA, Ga, November 5.
~ The Carnegie Founda-
4 \ ton for the Advancement
of Teaching has launched
another investigation of the con-
duct of intercollegiate athletics to
supplant the famous Bulletin %,
which jostled, but, no means, dis
integrated, the existing system OF
college sport administration.
Southern institutions and presumably
seats of higher learning throughout the
country are being questioned as to the
present status of scholarship among
athletes. and whether or not reforms,
remedies, ameliorations and so tortn
have been promulgated If not put INTO
effect.
The supposition is that the check-up
will be embodied in another puiIe1ni.
whose teeth will perhaps be sharper
than the fangs of Bulletin %, whose
molars and bicuspids were blunted by
defects instantly recognized by the
intercollegiate body polite.
May Formulate Code.
It may well be that in reports re-
turned to the Carnegie organization
will be found suggestions as 10 cooe
Of eligibility, as well as a system OF
methods regulating conditions under
which Impoverished athletes might md
a home in the university of their choice
which would greatly improve, II not al
together check, a condition which hnoS
the substituting of athletes, proselyting
and the like fiourishing as luxuriantly
as though the Carnegie report had not
been issued.
How would it be-" asked the leader
of a great Northern institution recent
ly. "Were athletic scholarships by this
and other universities awarded openly
and honestly? Sums, say not exceed
ing $500 or $400, would be awarded by
the president of a university or the
chairman of the faculty athletic COM
mittee to boys who upon Investigation
were found to be deserving of this
bounty. The sums advanced would be
loans, Endorsed by responsible persons
known 10 the university officials, and
would be paid of after graduation.
I'm this way" said this university
president to the writer, "the present
hypocrisy would be eliminated and
alumni influence, which We all know
exists, be reduced to minimum. Ath-
1etes, as we all know, are likely to be
poor boys. The reason is not far to
seek. They are tndurated physically,
are Injured to hard work and have
been reared to lives Of self-sacrifice.
Best to Help Athletes.
"They cannot go through college
without financial assistance; so why
place them at the mercy Of submerged
Influences, which make them parties
to deceit in a way that cannot but
influence their characters adversely?
Why not have the colleges take this
situation in their own hands?"
Whether or not the Carnegie Founda-
ton will sanction anything of the sort
were it strongly presented to this body
AS it may be--ts a question not TO
be answered by an outsider.
But at least in its supplemental in
vestigation the foundation would per-
form a great public service were 1t to
investigate the courses Of study ath-
letes are taking at various universities
and the nature of the work they are
performing to earn their scholastic and
living remisSions.
And, also, it might be In order to
separate those institutions whose ath-
letes may indulge in varsity sports
while majoring IN a subject which
merely requires their hanging around a
dairy, or something of the sort, from
students In institutions where mathe-
MATES, languages and other tine-hon-
ored subjects lying within the arts are
essential