College Athletics and Intellectual Education
By Editor
It is openly charged that some of the leading educational institutions encourage a class of professional athletes who are students only in name, simply that the university or college may stand high in athletics. The reason of this seems to be that in the popular mind institutions of education are graded according to the standing of their boat crew, their football eleven, their baseball nine, their hammer thrower, long-distance runner, or something of that sort. Intellectual advancement in the popular mind seems a secondary consideration, and is made so by the press. The tendency of the world is to brutalism; but God has called us to peace and greater conquests than winning a boat-race or taking a city. READ the story in our Fireside department; you may find your experience there.