Dr. Howard Crosby of New York is a gentleman who has gained a national reputation for independence of opinion and originality of thought on all public questions. Any opinions of his, there-fore, on questions of importance to our colleges will be read with interest and attention by American students. Dr. Crosby has been fulminating against college sports and inter-collegiate contests. His expressions are bold and radical, and, it must be said, will have a considerable weight as representing the views of a large class of people in this country on the subject. And yet the fairer class of people, while receiving his criticisms for what truth they contain, cannot help perceiving how violent and one-sided are his charges. It is not the system of college sports that is wrong, but the excesses into which those sports may, but, as we think, have but little as yet, run.
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