CONVENTION OF COLLEGES AND EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 17 



President J. H. Connell called attention to the fact that those in charge of 

 physical training at the colleges are frequently so overloaded with team work 

 that they have no time to devote to the average or exceptionally weak boy. 



Intercollegiate athletics. — President H. J. Waters read a paper on " Ideals for 

 intercollegiate athletics and means of obtaining them," in which he asserted the 

 belief that the colleges should employ no professional coaches and no coach who 

 does not have other college duties ; that they should not use athletics for adver- 

 tising purposes; that the department of athletics should become a department 

 of proper student conduct, in which, among other things, athletics should take 

 the place of foolish student pranks; that all college athletics should be on col- 

 lege grounds and with college students ; that high scholarship should be re- 

 quired of those engaging in athletics; that recruiting should be abolished and 

 freshmen not be allowed to engage in intercollegiate contests. 



In this connection the importance of military drill as a form of physical exer- 

 cise and training was pointed out by Dr. W. H. S. Deniarest, of New Jersey. 



Extravagant expenditures. — Means of discouraging extravagant expenditures 

 and snobbery among university and college students was the subject of a 

 paper by Dr. W. E. Stone, of Indiana. President Stone called attention to the 

 fact that some of the colleges had recently been unjustly criticized by news- 

 paper writers, and urged that the colleges be judged by their graduates and 

 upper class men rather than by their freshmen. 



He thought that extravagance and snobbery exist among students for just 

 the same reasons that they exist among people outside of college, and that they 

 could be discouraged by encouraging greater democracy among students, by 

 some supervision of fraternity activities and the placing of responsibility upon 

 the fraternities for the conduct of their members, by bringing the students in 

 closer contact with the faculty in a social way and on committees having the 

 supervision of expenditures of money, and, as a last resort, by the elimination 

 of undesirable students who prove not to be amenable to college regulations or 

 uplifting influences. 



In the discussion of this paper, President J. C. Hardy emphasized the im- 

 portance of creating an atmosphere in college which would not permit snobbery 

 to exist, and of working toward the " aristocracy of efficiency " as an ideal. 



Social activities of tJie student body. — President K. L. Butterfield, of Massa- 

 chusetts, discussed means of promoting healthful activities in the social body. 

 He expressed the belief that social activities along wholesome lines should be 

 recognized as a legitimate part of college life, and recommended the bringing of 

 students and faculty together on committees for the purpose of regulating and 

 directing social activities. 



He stated that at Massachusetts there is a standing faculty committee on 

 student life, and this committee has eight subcommittees on such phases of 

 student life as student organizations, social union, musical organizations, fra- 

 ternities, publications, and other organizations. 



Dr. C. A. Lory, of Colorado, also emphasized the importance of the faculty 

 recognizing its responsibilities outside of the classrooms and keeping in close 

 touch with the student leaders, working with them as far as possible, but in 

 such a quiet way as to make the students feel that they are managing their 

 own affairs. 



Dr. H. L. Russell, of Wisconsin, described the system of student advisers 

 in vogue at the University of Wisconsin, in which each student is assigned to 

 some professor or assistant professor as his adviser, and this professor com- 

 municates to the parents of the student the fact that he has been placed in 

 such an advisory position. 



