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 even be made the subject of an associated press dispatch. We all read, look wise, and say piously that athletics is becoming the curse of our colleges.

Many college instructors honestly believe that students are injured intellectually by engaging in outside activities, and not only advise their students not to go into them, but are really prejudiced against the fellows who do not follow their advice. "Are you still on the Siren board?" I asked a senior last spring. "Yes," was his reply, "but it would not be safe to let the Dean know it. If he found out, I am sure I should flunk his course." I was quite convinced that there was more truth than poetry in what he was saying, for I have known many instructors who found it difficult to "see" the man who was in any way prominent in college activities.

My observation over a period of several years at the University of Illinois of the men engaged in all varieties of college activities does not warrant this general belief, however. With us the average of scholarship of the men engaged in practically every form of college activity is higher than that of the men not engaged. This has been true of the men in football, in baseball, in track, on the college papers, in the literary societies, and in the various lines of undergraduate activity. It should not be forgotten, of course, that the