The Creighton Chronicle . presume that allof you find it easier to interest your alumni in athletics than inany other branch of college life. Too frequently alumni when they leave an institution andget out into the world forget the college point of view, the edu-cational aspect of athletics, and become interested solely fromthe sporting standpoint. You know, gentlemen, you surely knowthat the history of college athletics for the past twenty years—well, let us leave out the past ten years—and go back twentyyears—is not all creditable. You know very well that the activ-ities of college alumni ha
The Creighton Chronicle . presume that allof you find it easier to interest your alumni in athletics than inany other branch of college life. Too frequently alumni when they leave an institution andget out into the world forget the college point of view, the edu-cational aspect of athletics, and become interested solely fromthe sporting standpoint. You know, gentlemen, you surely knowthat the history of college athletics for the past twenty years—well, let us leave out the past ten years—and go back twentyyears—is not all creditable. You know very well that the activ-ities of college alumni have not always been in keeping with thespirit of College life. Too often men have been hired to play onteams, and those men have generally had their wages paid byalumni. I do not hesitate to say to you that this has been a dis-graceful chapter in our educational history which we ought to tryto atone for. However, a better is coming, has come, and I wouldtherefore ask the alumni of, all of our educational institutions. 526 THE CREIGHTON CHRONICLE to help the faculties and to help the students and help the coachesto maintain high ideals in athletics. In my opinion, an institu-tion cannot have a character any better than the characterthat is manifested in its athletic department. An institutionthat will permit the hiring of players cannot have much abidingauthority, or any great influence over the lives of its students. I would indicate another field in which alumni have beenand still are very active and helpful, and that is in relation tofraternities. The problem of college fraternities is a constantone everywhere. Now fraternities are more amenable to in-fluences brought to bear on them by alumni than they are toinfluences brought to bear on them by the faculty. And yet,you know that not all alumni have considered that a real obli-gation. You know that sometimes the alumni have come backon some great occasion, have taken possession of college houses,and have mingled with st
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