CUNNINGHAM GIVES TALK ON ATHLETIC MORALITY BEFORE DUNSTER FORUM

"No coach need fear for his job as long as our teams look good in defeat, but every team has a right to win and no one with any other purpose has any right to be in an intercollegiate contest," said William J. Bingham, Director of Physical Education and Athletics, last night at the Dunster House Forum speaking on "The Place of Athletics in the Modern University."

Other speakers before the small audience were Dr. Arlie V. Bock, Henry K. Oliver Professor of Hygiene, Dean Hanford, William Cunningham, Boston sports-writer Benno Rybizka of the Eastern Slope Ski School, Douglas Mercer '40, and Langdon P. Marvin, Jr. '41.

Bingham went on to describe the general trend in Harvard athletics, and landed the Harvard system which he said gave equal opportunities to the Varsity athlete and the intramural competitor. Cunningham branded Bingham's attitude as much too idealistic.

"Your ideals are the most Christlike in the nation," he said, "but you can't compete with subsidized institutions. Michigan may be a member of the Big Ten and subject nominally to its code. Yet her sons of sodbusters can overpower anything you can get around here. This situation will remain as long as you keep the barriers up."