SWIMMING POOL AND GOLF COURSE URGED BY PENNYPACKER

The immediate construction of a swimming pool and golf course are among the recommendations made by Henry Pennypacker '88, Chairman of the University Athletic Committee, writing in the current number of the Alumni Bulletin, which appears today.

In addition Mr. Pennypacker thinks that it would be advisable to build a new and more commodious baseball cage, to remove the wooden stands at the north end of the Stadium and replace them with a permanent concrete addition, and to make more adequate provisions for the housing of the Athletic Association.

Mr. Pennypacker commences his article with a short discussion of the floods of criticism that have besieged the University coaches without giving them any opportunity for self-defense. He defines the objective of athletics as being two-fold: "First, physical and spiritual development and second, the joy of play."

Freshman Athlete Below Standard

He discusses the scholarship of athletes and reaches the conclusion that "the athlete is rather more content with merely "getting by" than is the average undergraduate. "The Freshman athlete", he says, "new to college standards, fails to reach the average of his class in scholarship."

Employment Problem Difficult

Mr. Pennypacker lays most of the blame for our failure to win a greater percentage of intercollegiate contests on the fact that the opportunities for student employment here have been less than those offered by Yale and Princeton. He points out the attention now being given this situation.

Mr. Pennypacker closes with the opinion that athletics now occupy their full share of undergraduate time, and that no new intercollegiate sports should be recognized, and finally that no undergraduate should represent the University in more than two major sports during the academic year.