Repository: UIHistories Project: Magazine - English Club The Illinois (1907) [PAGE 44]

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Now things have materially ohani •<! instead of u a number of earnest, hardworking, supph , t< light" men on the side lines, it is not an uncomn n fehing to see the men oi* beef ocoupying their plac i, and the "midgets" themselves lining up in po itions onoe occupied only by heavy fellows, positions now the logical berths for the man of average avoirdupois.

This has produced a change soreh needed, for the men now needed are far more n u m e r o u s than I he kind once desired. This alone will stem in a t r e a t degree the demand for wonders since t h e supply has been increased, [f t h e u n i v e r s i t i e s ' aut horit ies will jutd scrutinize closely and fairly the scholastic s t a n d i n g of the men who are to ropros nf them and all v\ only

those who can legitimately he called students to represent them, another greater and hotter step shall

have heen t a k e n . In the past it has not l»een uncommon for a conditonod student herald d a s an impossibility as an a t h l e t i c a s p i r a n t , to t a k e his e x a m i n a tion t h e Qighl before* or the d a y of, a hig a t h l e t i c

meet or contest to appear OD sehodul 1 time tor the

« >ntest. W h e t h e r t h i s i duo to his reallv h a v i n g I i^ d his e x a m i n a t i o n successfully or to the OVer-

anxietyofa professor who imagine his popularity hinges on the res u It of the try, 1 ^\o not know. It

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if no such examination were allow. 1 at all; yet at one great institution it is the ml . Right here l might add that more real students

mid ropn .-ui our t e a m s if onl\ those w ho were r e g u l a r l y m a t r i o u l a l I m e m b e r s in torn< i \n\ ed ""• in the u n i v e i it v were allow I 1 I pi it ,H tt 1 t that too many s t u d e n t s who tak< .1 matt r:

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