The Sinful Seven by Jason Kirk6/10/2023 ![]() ![]() “How do students, devoted to study, find either the time or the money to stage so costly a performance?” “What relation has this astonishing athletic display to the work of an intellectual agency like a university?” When the visitor from the European university has pondered the matter, he comes to his American university colleagues with two questions: ![]() ![]() At the end, the vast majority of the onlookers only know, like old Kaspar of Blenheim, that” ‘twas a famous victory” for one university or the other. He is the more mystified when he discovers that of the thousands of onlookers, not one in a hundred understands the game or can follow the strategy. On a crisp November afternoon he finds many thousands of men and women, gathered in a great amphitheater, wildly cheering a group of athletes who are described to him as playing a game of football, but who seem to be engaged in a battle. Nothing in the educational regime of our higher institutions perplexes the European visitor so much as the role that organized athletics play. ![]()
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