Professor Abbott has contributed much during the past two years in the way of making Yale thought articulate; and upon nothing is he more to be congratulated than his definition of the attitude which Yale takes in regard to wartime athletics, a propos of the Severn regatta. To quote in part:
"The only excuse that the authorities have for instituting organized sport at these two universities again is that we find it necessary for the morale and good health of the college that the students should be urged to undertake athletic sports, and these sports will merely be the handmaid of military or navy training. We therefore enter organized sport not with the old purpose of defeating our hereditary rivals, but merely with the purpose of turning out men in the best physical condition to undergo the strain of modern warfare." The Yale News.
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