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APPROVES IT
Ex-Chancellor McLean Believes
in Football
IMS MODE GOOD THAN EVIL EFFECTS
$et Should Be Played only under Proper
Supervision.
- The college and university press of
both east and west has boen filled the
past wook or two with articles for and
against football. Indications are, that
a strong reactionary tide is rising,
and that the friends of the gridiron
sport will bo compelled to rally, aa
ttioy havo periodically been compelled
to rally .beforo, In defonso of their game
Perhaps tho most significant feature
of tho present movement is that sug
gestions of modifications of rules suf
ficient to decrease the danger of1 In
juries, are being made by supporters
of the game. Even though their Bug-
gestlona are not accepted, they indicate
that tho present criticism of football
"brutality" is aot one raised wholly
"bytefienales of the game.
In view of this general discussion or
" tlwf" q&eefchm which received some
little consideration at the hands of one
of tho city "papers at the end of the
last season, tho opinion of President
McLean, of tho Dnlvoraity of Iowa,
will bo of considerable Interest to Uni
versity and Lincoln friends and ac
quaintances of our ex-chancellor. The
Dally Iowan has been conducting a
symposium on the football question,
and In response to Its request for an
expression of opinion, President Mc
Lean wroto as follows:
"Without elaboration to reply brief
ly to yonr questions as to the effect of
football on tho player, and the univer
sity and the scholarship, I would make
tho following statements:
In an experience of eighteen years
either dlroctly or indirectly related to
committees on athletics in state uni-
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tory Paper, Note Books, etc,
that fa "not excelled.- X If you
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cerslties, I have never known a player
to bo degraded by football. I havo
often known of the elevation of a fel
low of largo physique and animal
spirits into a man of more intellectual
and moral type. To state it In another
way, I havo known men without lofty
instincts and possibly low tendencies
to go upon teams, and I havo never
known them to go nny lower, and fre
quently havo observed their elevation
in every particular. Since tho preach
ing far and wide of muscular Chris
tianity, it has often come about that
the leaders of our teams have been
members of tho Y. M. C. A. For ex
ample, the captain of the team of tho
University of Iowa was a president of
the university Y. M. C. A.
The universities which formerly neg
lected too much tho physical sldo of
glected too much tho physical Bido of
the Btudent and did not take sufficient
Interest in this play, in no small de
gree through tho Influence of football
have come to recognize not only tho
importance of physical training and
of play In education, but also the so
Ik, , fcbHaaMons of the nnlversltr to
its Btudents. The development of uni
versity Bpirlt is traceable in no small
measure to football.
Too great prominenco is frequently
given to football In newspaper reports;-)
nevertheless, the support of football
and athletics is a significant straw as
to which way the wind blows In, a
university in all lines of activities.
The effect of the game upon scholar
ship is negative rather than positive.
It has been found necessary to de
mand a minimum of scholarship
Btandard upon the part of tho players.
Some of the best scholars maintain a
high standing upon the team, but it is
doubtless a strain upon the indi
vidual. Scholarship is gained in the
way of greater scrutiny of the stand
ing of students on the part of the fac
ulty. Tho evils which spring up about
football, like betting, should not be at
tributed to it; they are evils too much
fostered in the home life and social life
of Amoricans. They should be pro
hibited and suppressed not only as
vices, but as doing harm to a legiti
mate sport we need among others In
America which has been lacking in
healthful amusements.
It is to be understood that I am
writing only of football in a college
or university with a proper physical
director and thorough faculty and
alumni supervision. Tho major por
tion of tho accidents and evils of which
we hear occurs among the young, un
trained players, and on other than
university fields,"
GEORGE E, MAC LEAN,
In addition to tho regular program,
announced elsewhere, attendants on
Friday morning convocation exercises
will be treated to several "musical num
bers from the Omaha Deaf and Dumb
Institute's sextette. The sextette Is
making Its visit to Lincoln under the
charge of Supt R. B. Stewart, and will
render a second program, after convo
cation, before the Charities and Cor-
4 reckons' Conference, in session at St.
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A reporter of Tho Nebraskan, by in
terviewing several members of tho
faculty and Bomo of tho students,
gleanod what is probably tho true feel
ing of tho University on chapel-going
and convocation attendance. Tho ob
ject of tho Inquiry was to learn, as
far as possible, the reason why con
vocation is not-moro generally attend
ed and to secure suggestions that
might aid In bringing students out to
theso exercises.
The students, as a rulo, wore in
clined to make light of tho queSBoB.
Thoy seemed to look upon tho prob
lem as rather a Joko than a sorious
matter. When asked for their opin
ions as to why convocation 1b not
better attonded they make such an
swers aa, Wo have better business to
att$jd. to''Tbere'B nothing in it." or
"Life Is too shdrt." Some few, how
ever, took a sorious view and tried to
account for tho falling off of atten
dance while the good standard of con
vocation exercises Is maintained.
Ono said: "Tho studonts as a whole
fail to appreciate tho valuo of tho talks
that aro given. They are not interest-
led In ithe problems .that are before tho
public, tho problems that must bo
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solved by the Individual members of
the commonwealth." "But why this
lack of Intorest?" was asked. "Ono
would think that advanced Btudents
would bo up on all such problems, and
would be eager to hear and ovon to
enter Into a discussion of them."
"Well, perhaps Unlvorslty students are
too much isolated from tho outside
world. Thoy are Influenced too much
by environment and care only for tech
nical matters. '
No satisfactory answers were made
to the question of how to increase tho
convocation attendance. All seemed to
regard the solution of Buch a vexing
problem as beyond them and turned it
off with, "The only way to get stu
dents out Is either to pay them for
the time, which would bankrupt tho
Institution, or to give them an hour's
crodlt."
Tho professors, when Interviewed on
tho matter, were also at a loss to know
how to meet tho question. One said:
"Poor attendance may be a lack of
appreciation on the part of the stu
dents, or it may be that thoy attend
and aro too often disappointed. It
is certainly worth tho time that stu
dents spend at convocation, fqr jtlie.
speakers are usually pronllrienf men
or specialists on tho subject under dls-
cussjoh, and havoads some .prepara
tion for their talk. The student body
is probably too much absorbed in
books o keep up with thpitghi oitsjifp
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romedy, It is bard to say what irfeas
ureff ought to be taken. X'1tnow ono
way to get tho students out, but
whether it would be practical or not
I am not so sure,, if the lecture room's
were locked up during' convocation
hour thp students could not congre
gate ilnvtho various j-doms'and study
or visit!- Tbey w.6ulfl:WcbmpelledJto
Another professor said: "I would
suggest that tho hour bo changed to
8:30 o'clock. Tho 10 o'clock period
breaks Into tho forenoon's wfyrk and
makes it very difficult, for tho instruc
tors especially, to attend chapel. By
beginning the day with convocatlo
there would bo no interruption fOi
either professors or students. Eight
o'clock 1b a little early anyway for tho
day to begin, especially in cold
weather. Students usually avoid .eight
o'-clock classes for this very reason.
Thoy like to come to tho University
about half past eight and begin work.
If such a scheme wero put into prac
tice tho library and class rooms would
not havo to be oponcd until about ten
minutes before nine. Tho only differ
ence would bo that actual work would
begin at nine instead of at oight
o'clock. Tho Idea Is to Introduce tho
chapel hour where It shall not Inter
fere with tho work of tho day. In
smaller institutions, whon chapel-going
is mado compulsory, tho hour is
usually selected Just before dinner or
early in the morning. But hero, there
is no way of compelling attondanco to
such exercibcs, and other means must
bo resoited to."
At tho exec itivo office it was learned
that the plan of conducting convoca-
UiflUwill, j)o essentially the samo as
has been made use of for the past
year. The ten-minute talks will bo
continued. Prominent men' will bo se
cured to speak on questions of imme
diate importance and interest to the
public. The music feature of the ex
ercises will be given a more prominont
place, however. Besides the Friday
musicales, probably one other day's
convocation pprlod will bo devoted to
music each week. Tho music element
in the regular daily exercises will also
be made more prominont Besides the
music bythe quartetto aitd pipe or
gan, there will bo some special feature
added to each day's program. The.
administration has evidently "noticed
that tho Friday musicales are best at
tended and proposes to 'introduce more
of tho pleasing element Into all the
exercises.
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