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brothers together in aspirations and frustrations. The ground we have
gained we will not surrender. We are not yet what we would become,
and we need the help of all. With the coöperation of trustees, alumni,
faculty, and students, the colleges can preserve and advance them-
selves as educational centers in which intercollegiate sport will become
a more representative by-product of the youthful zest for games and
athletic skill, the spirit of sportsmanship, and a community-wide
participation in athletic play. The colleges have no greater means of
teaching than through their departments of physical education, gym-
nasiums, intramural and varsity fields, the lessons of the physical
basis of intellectual vigor and the spiritually radiant personality, the
satisfaction and values of clean living, the sportsmen's code of fair
play, courage, self-sacrifice for the team and the college, mayhap to be
translated into a social code of the higher loyalties of justice and
coöperation among men.

PARTICIPATION OF THE FACULTIES

Closely related to this reexamination of athletics, the honor prin-
ciple, student life, and self-government on the campus, is the reëxami-
nation of the curriculum now under way in many of the best American
colleges and universities. The faculties of our three institutions, upon
your approval of my recommendation, have undertaken a reconsidera-
tion not only of the curriculum but also of student life and welfare,
faculty community life and welfare, the college budgets, the quarter
and semester systems, the comprehensive examinations, the admin-
istrative and clerical organization, and any other matters of vital
concern to the three institutions and the one university. It was
considered hazardous to turn the budget over to a faculty committee
for their independent consideration, but so far there have been
constructive suggestions and adjustments rather than violent explo-
sions. These committees will report both to the respective faculties
and to the university administrative council, from which summary
reports will be brought by the president to the Board of Trustees.
Paralleling these local studies, a survey is being made by a member
of the faculty of the University, under the auspices of the General
Education Board, of the curricular experiments under way in American
colleges. Thus we shall have both a local and a national approach
to the reconsideration of the curriculum. The promise of the several
approaches and the ability and enthusiasm of many of the com-