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Caption: Magazine - English Club The Illinois (1907)
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and if he will but conscientiously act accordingly much good oan bedone; forbad conduct has been one t the threadbare criticisms on the part of even * friends of college athletics. Good scholarship and unimpeachable morals in themselv il to he jealously attained us well as retained, arc within the roach of all and should he the qualilr itions especially for athletes; for known pr hly l>elter than (he average student, they can make themselves examples to be follow' 1; while imitation will result, more from daily acts and actions than from reputat ion. [f only all the universities would make their inane d <ire for winners subservient to qualifications < which will better tit and prepare men for life (inst< ul ^\' for a temporary Illuminating period) instead of ruin their chain -; altogether, our athletics should be above reproach. The uccess of a university team, I maintain, does not depend on a comparison of defeats and victories. Of course a mad like aggregation, cheering with unbounded excitement may at times 8i HI aggrieved, butfaftor duo deliberation they arc hotter it isfied, or ought to be, to know that the t ins they urge are composed of student calibre, men with whom they find themselves in daily touch. It is sii ular, too, to know that the most heralded r »ti i HI 1h west are right hero in our own institution, in t h e n it future their labors are surelj to b< !• warded and when SUCh shall OOme to pass they will enjoy a victory of double sweetness, because thej won and because real students won it.
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