Athletic Requirements to Be Unchanged, States Hanford

No change is contemplated in the present system of compulsory athletics, currently required of Freshmen and Sophomores, Dean Hanford announced yesterday. The program was designed "more for recreation than conditioning," he said. Furthermore, considerations of general health and the opportunities provided for men to meet one another were influential in the Faculty's decision to maintain the wartime schedules for the lower two classes.

With the institution of a far more flexible program than that arranged during the war and the reduction of requirements from four periods per week to three, an effort has been made to emphasize the recreational aspects of the plan, he declared.