Abstract

Editorials

The article presents information on college sports. The colleges are every year more and more abandoning the old theory that an undergraduate must be kept at his tasks and have them set for him like a schoolboy and under the new system, those who have no intellectual ambition will waste a good deal of their time in any case. College sports save them from so much idleness, if they do nothing more. The craze for sports, contests, and "events" is a feature of the modern world, and to expect the enthusiasm not to show itself in the colleges would be absurd. In fact, it has forced its way then rather against the feeling of the faculties than by their aid ; and considering to what amazing excesses the love of "sports" of all kinds tends in the adult world, it is rather surprising that the college sports are, on the whole, still confined to honest boyish contests of bone and muscle.