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IN COLLEGEFO0OTBALL,
FRANCIS WALLACE, NEW YORK
SPORTS MAN, DISCUSSES
PRESENT SYSTEM
ALUMNI INFLUENCE GAME
Article States That Graduates Ask For
Spectacular Contests And
Players
Speaking of the courses open to
colIege's to prevent football from tak-
ing on too professional an appear-
ance, Francis Wallace of the sports
department of the New York Evening
Post has outlined three policies which
might be followed. This article ap-
pears in the November issue of Scrib-
ner's magazine. In a previous dis-
cussion in the Daily a criticism of the
methods of scouting of prospective
football players was made.
The game of football, according to
the article, is played by the outposts
of the amateur system far beyond the
corrals of the college; but sectional
titles and championships are dearer
to the home-town alumni and depend
upon the astuteness of the home-town1
scouttin selecting plbyersfor his
pchool.
The interesting point is that these
preparations go right ahead on a clear
track despite the announcements by
college presidents of various plans to
check the growing menace, of over-
emphasis of footballandadespite the
code of the Committee of Sixty.
A. Lawrence Lowell; president of
Harvard, summarized the typal at-
titude of the faculty leaders in his
annual report to the overseers. He de-
clared that the true end of athle,,ic
interests is the promotion of physical
development and well-being through-
out the student body and asserted that
intercollegiate contests must not be
regarded as entertainment for the
alumni and public. He deplored the
excesses of spectacular games, which
he said, resembled the world series in
baseball, and the games in the Coli-
seum in' Rome.
Most End iere
Most of the collegiate announce-
ments end at this point. Doctor Low-
ell calls attention to the fact that
Harvard has courageously moved to
reduce the evil by not playing contin-
uously with any other college except
Yale.
Ernest Martin Hopkins, president
of Dartmouth, is much more revolu-
tionary. "The administrations of the
American colleges and universities
have, up to date, spent most of their
energies in deploring present condi-
tions," he said, "and after this have
recognized only two alternatives,
either a policy of laissez-faire with an
occasional grumble from the faculty
president, or else a policy of annihila-
tion. This latter is a simple and easy
solution, but I think that it ignores
the fact that intercollegiate football in
particular, has certain values in a
college community."
Dr. Hopkins is advocating a plan to
limit the players on Varsity teams to
members of the sophomore and junior
classes, giving each college two var-
sity teams for major games, one to
play at home and the other on the
rival's gridiron, and would have all
coaching done by undergraduates.
This is precisely the plan proposed
previously by President Clarence Cook
Little.
West Organized.
The opponents. of football vice in
the Middle West are much better or-
ganized, the article says. The West-
ern Conference not only regulates the
conduct of its members but serves as
a model for other conferences and
brings all important schools in the
West under its sphere by insisting
that every college which engages in
contests with members of the Big Ten
subscribe to the Big Ten bible. Major
John L. Griffith serves as atheltic
commissioner. Recently his activities
have been supplemented by the 4Com-
mission wph b8pues
mittee of Sixty, which is made up of/
six men from each college-the presi-
dent, chairman of the board of reg-
ents, a prominent alumnus, the faculty
athletic chairman, the athletic direc-
tor, and the football coach. The com-
mittee drafted a code o fethics to be
followed in the recruiting of prospec-
tive athletes and announced that foot-
ball canididates will be required to
sign and abide by the code. The prac-
tices which the code forbids are those
which are universally employed in
the signing-up of lads who wish to
work their way through college with
their football talent.
The code has five points. The first
states that scholarships, loans, and re-
mission of tuition should not be
awarded by universities on the basis
of atheltic skill; it brands as uneth-
ical the unofficial granting of aid to
athletes by individuals and organiza-
tions, alumni or otherwise. It also
forbids athletic directors initiating
proceedings with prep-school athletes
but permitry them to make inquiries
and to describe the advantages of their
institutes.
Faculty Object.
The objection to football comes
chiefly from faculty members who are
in some way or other jealous of the
fame the sport has gained. Over-em-
phasis of football could be prevented
by a simple act of the faculty will in
stopping the commercialism of the
game. "The one trouble with foot-
ball is the hypocrisy of the faculties,
not the coaches."
MASSACHUSETTS ELECTRICITY PROFESSOR INVENTS !FRESHMAN, ARMY
"THINKING MACHINE" TO DO HIGHER MATHEM ATaCS INTELLIGENCE IS
-NOTED IN STUDY
l NEW YORK, Oct. 26- There is no
flattery for the army in the report of
...Dr., W. R. Atkinson, psychology in-
ry stiuctor at Southwestern college, that
J;Z....~? ~ '- th axerae intelligence ofthe fresh-
-0an i~cclass is equivalent to that of a
United States army major. Dr. Atkin-
scn announces further that two years
go the freshman was equal to to a
1, iarmy sergeant in mental acuity, last
,rear equal to that of a captain, and
this year to a major. This indicates
he says, that the present class rates
above the average. However, there is
a question involved. Inasmuch as
the army is th* normal, there is some
doubt about the compliment awarded
to the freshmen, although the pro-
fessor spoke of acuity, not "vacuity"
DANA TO ATTEND
DETROIT MEETING
Samuel T. Dana, dean of the School
of Forestry and Conservation, and
members of the faculty of the forest
b. school will leave today for Detroit to
' ~attend the annual meeting of the
Woodturners association. Dean Dana
{ .\. .: .will give a short talk on the new for-
estry school, outlining its purposes
°' ,,_ ..... ':.and telling of its plans for the future.
ARIZONA-Sophomore men of the
An electrical machine with a mechanical mind that solves involved mathematical problems too com plex fo b Uliversity of Arizona will not wear
the human brain has been perfected at the Massachusets Institute of Technology, Boston, by Dr. Vannevar lush bla ck h ards dbes
professor of electric power transmission, and a staff of research workers. Dr. Bush is shown adjusting the pasne easofrhandoe nger e
machine, which is called a product "product integraph. was the reason for abandoning the
cap1 an.
now Captain SCully is right-
uCKes are far Superior
OPENINGi
Mimes
THEATRE
WED., NOV.2
Comedy
Club
will present
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G0 S. Kaufman
and
WHITNEY THEATRE
I Marc, Connelly
Photo by V. S. Bent
SA TURDAY NIGHT, OCTOBER 29
Ernest Hanes and Charles Allais
present
V..
if
Charles Rann Kennedy's Gireat Dramatic
Masterpiece
"The ervant
in the House"
You t00, will find that
LUCKY STRIKES
give
Captain Charles B. Scully,
Noted Swimming Coach
and Lecturer,
writes:
"As Dircptor of The Life Saving Service of The
N. Y. American Red Cross I am called on to
make frequent speeches and to broadcast weekly.
I must always have a clear voice-unirritated,
with no chance of coughing. Lucky Strikes, my
favorite cigarette, permits me to smoke as much
as I choose and still keep my voice in perfect
condition. Furthermore, because of their fine
flavor, I recommend Lucky Strikes to all the
champion swimmers whom I coach."
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Glorifying
the
American
Dumbelle
with
the greatest pleasure-
Mild and Mellow, the fin-
est cigarettes you ever
Dulcy says:
CHARLES ALLAIS
and a distinguished supporting company including
"It's the
intention,
smoked.
Made of the
not the ift that
Frank Howson
Jane Carr
Edwin Fulcomer
John C. Davis
Betty Boice
Arthur Jacobson
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Production directed by the atithor
Settings by Kate Drain Lawson of
The Theatre Guild, New York
choicest tobaccos, proper-
y aged and blended with
great skill, and there is
an extra process "IT'S
TOASTED"-no harsh-
ness, not a bit of bite.
sayW"
counts,
always
Seats, 75c
Mail 'orders now.
Box Office sale
opens Mon., Oct. 31
The acting was individually artistic and unquestionably
the last word in dramatic performance. The company was
as one artist."
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