Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 12, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 May 1928 — Page 14

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COLLEGE SPORT 1 DENOUNCED AS MOB EXHIBITION Psychologist Flays System of Training Few to Amuse Crowd. By Science Service BALTIMORE, Md, May 2J.—'The American college custom of sending out a small squad of highly trained athletes to do or die for Alma Mater, while the rest of the students, undertrained physically, yell for victory from the sidelines, was emphatically denounced in an address tonight by Dr. Knight Dunlap, professor of psychology at John Hopkins University. Dr. Dunlap before the American Physical Education Association, in convention here. “An important function of the college and university today is to furnish sport and amusement for the mob, thus linking our great educational institutions up. with Hollywood and the municipal zoos,” the psychologist said. Grade Probe Urged, Urging investigation of the powerful force that inter-collegiate athletics have become in the past twentyfive years, Dr. Dunlap said that data should be gathered to compare the ranking of a university in its inter-college athletic prowess with its ranking in general ethical standards. Reliable data should also be sought, he said, to show whether more men are excluded from teams since the colleges have demanded that their athletes measure up to certain standards in class work or be dropped from sport competitions. “Knowledge of what a given grade will do to a student always influences the grade that an instructor decides upon,” he said. “It would be worth knowing whether the grades of athletes given by instructors much interested in athletics average higher than those given by instructors obtuse to college enthusiasms. . This is not a question of instructional ethics, but merely one of instructional psychology.” Offers Substitute. Statistics should be gathered, he continued, to what extent men trained on college teams keep up outdoor sports after graduation, as compared with men who engage in more individualistic sports in college days. Asa substitute for inter-college sport battles, the psychologist suggested that the plan of having teams from the same college compete should be given a fair and careful trial, to see whether group consciousness and college loyalty and enthusiasm cannot be built up by some different system. “Abolition of inter-collegiate athletics would be an unmixed blessing,” the professor declared. CHOIR GOES ON STRIKE Protest Cigaret and Party Ban By Minister. NEA Service Correspondent MANCHESTER, England, May 25. —The choir of St. Clement’s Church at Higher Broughton, has gone on strike because the Rev. J. Daft, pastor of the church, placed a ban against smoking on church premises and prohibited whist drives and dances. In explaining his action the pastor held that whist drives and dances throttle the life of the church and stifle the efforts of the minister; while smoking on church premises was held improper as well as being responsible for keeping many people, who objected to smokfrom attending church funtions.

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