The Creighton Chronicle . f the college athlete will welcome the elimina-tion of the abuses which had become well nigh intolerable beforethe war. It is not too much to hope that there will be at least ameasurable realization of the old ideal—a sound mind in a soundbody—and that the athletic equipment of our schools will boused to procure the maximum physical development of all thestudents along normal lines instead, as in the past, of beingutilized principally for the excessive training of a few menwho were all too often called ^*students^ only through courtesy. Whether the change which is dou
The Creighton Chronicle . f the college athlete will welcome the elimina-tion of the abuses which had become well nigh intolerable beforethe war. It is not too much to hope that there will be at least ameasurable realization of the old ideal—a sound mind in a soundbody—and that the athletic equipment of our schools will boused to procure the maximum physical development of all thestudents along normal lines instead, as in the past, of beingutilized principally for the excessive training of a few menwho were all too often called ^*students^ only through courtesy. Whether the change which is doubtless coming will takeform in military drill, in a further development of intra-mural WITH THE EDITORS 305 athletics, in systematic physical training as a pre-requisite tograduation, in the restriction, if not the elimination, of much ad-vertised university contests, only time will tell, but that somevital change will be produced by the war in this important fieldof university organization is too clear to need le^UGATIONAL WoRLD At the recent meeting of the Princeton Athletic Council itwas decided that as far as possible athletics would be con-tinued as in past years. It was thought that there is enoughathletic material in most schools of the country to fill the gapsleft vacant by athletes who have entered the national serviceand the Princeton Committee therefore concluded to set an ex-ample of **Athletics as Usual\ A recent writer on this sub-ject says: ^ ^ Princeton is to be congratulated for its stand. It has lostits stars of the gridiron, the diamond and the track, but it isgoing to develop new ones. That is the kind of college spiritthat savors of patriotism, inasmuch as college athletics of allkinds have been recommended by the government as the bestmeans of making the young manhood of the country physicallyfit to tackle any emergency that arises. The University of Oregon during the past year has reached800,260 people in its Extension Course through the use o
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