Long has emphatic U. S. college football been publicized and editorialized. Nearly every educator agrees that Something Should Be Done. Last fortnight a suggestion appeared: that "the importance and influence of gate receipts" for athletic contests be ended; that football and other sports be endowed by potent, enthusiastic college alumni. Author of this suggestion was Dr. Nicholas ("Miraculous") Murray Butler, president of Columbia University, in his annual report. He revealed that Columbia had given "serious and prolonged study" to the football question (Columbia gave up in 1905, resumed it again in 1915...
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