The Effect of Athletics on Scholarship.

A careful investigation of the standing of athletic and non-athletic students at Yale has been made by Professor Richards, assisted by C. H. Ludington, '87. The investigation covers the last twenty years and is based on an exhaustive mathematical computation of the marks received. The average standing of 1003 non-athletic men during the decade ending in 1878 was 2.65 on a scale of 4. During the next ten years it rose to 2.69 for 1227 men. The record of 101 athletic students during the first decade was 2.55. The averages of the members of the various university teams were as follows: Crew, first decade, 2.56, second decade, 2.52. Nine, first decade, 2.59; second decade, 2.40. Football eleven, first decade, 2.51; second decade, 2.68. The average of the track athletes during the past five years has been 2.68. It will be seen by these figures that the averages of the crew and nine fall below that of the non-athletic men, while those of the football men and track athletes rise above it. Both athlete and non-athletes show a gain in scholarship during the second decade.