Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 61, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 March 1911 — Collegians Down and Out. [ARTICLE]

Collegians Down and Out.

Oakland, Cal. —In an address before the students of the University of California on “College Men I Have Met In the Slums and Prisons 6f New York," C. M. Mercer, special secretary of the Association for Colleges of North America, said: “There are 18,000 college-bred men in New York alone who are down and out through liquor and fast living. There has been a marked decrease of the proportion of graduates who fall since the prevalence of college athletics amounting. I estimate, to M per cent.”