hing; in business the same as in sport. Therefore, let me repeat
that whereas enthusiasm and eagerness cannot be too highly commended,
any display of ill-feeling or displeasure in sport cannot be too
severely condemned.

At a number of schools it is the custom to allow instructors to play on
the football and baseball teams, and these instructors frequently go
into match games against other school teams. Such a system, of course,
is bad; but it is fortunate that it is not countenanced at those
institutions which hold a prominent place in the interscholastic world.
It is mostly at small private schools that the teachers play, but the
principle is the same. In the first place, a man who is old enough to be
a professor is too old to play against boys. He outclasses them in
experience and in strength, and it is unfair to pit such a player
against a young athlete who has gone into sport for the sake of trying
his skill against his equals. It is also discouraging to any team of
young men to have to face opponents among whom there may be one or more
college graduates. The mere presence of an older man on a boys' team
serves to overawe the other side.

A Captain is perfectly justified in refusing to play against any school
team that puts an instructor or professional trainer into the field with
the school players. In fact, I should strongly urge every Captain of a
school team to refuse to arrange games with any institution where the
professor habit prevails, and to retire from any contest in which the
opponents propose to play an older man. A few years ago there was a
school team in Pennsylvania that won most of its baseball games simply
because the pitcher was so much superior to any school pitcher the team
ever met, and so much better an all-round player than any school-boy
could be, that their opponents had no chance. That was not sport. There
was no glory in those victories. The school team did not win. It was the
professor against the field. He was a graduate of Williams College, I
think, and had been the crack pitcher of his year among college baseball
teams. But I think that he no longer performs for that school, and I
believe that the boys there have a truer appreciation of the ethics of
sport now, and fight their own battles on the diamond and on the
gridiron.

It is all very proper for instructors who were athletes in college to
give the scholars at the school they teach in the benefit of their
experience by coachin