Purity in Athletics.

On Friday evening at the University Club over 200 men, mostly Harvard alumni, listened to an address by Caspar W. Whitney on "Purity in Athletics." The speaker referred to the great menace offered to college athletics by the desire to win at any cost. In this way the semi-professionalism now existing at some colleges is introduced. It rests largely with the alumni to check this dangerous tendency. They should use all their influence to put athletics where they belong-on the basis of true sport.

Mr. Whitney was followed in short speeches by Professors Ames and Beale of Harvard and Professor Norwell of Brown.