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For the managerial policies of onr athletics 1ot so much can be said. So far as possible, of course, the management of the teams should be in the hamls of the boys, for the teams arc theirs, and they also come much closer than the faculty can in contact with the every-day considerations which must to a certain extent govern school athletics. Yet the teaching staff alone are in such a position as to guarantee permanency of principle to the more general policies, nuder which ath- letics must exist. ·where capable men can be had, they will, of course, afford a degTec of supervision to the managers, which past experience seems to make clear we must have.
Hardly a season passes that we do not realize that unregu- lated student management is not particularly successful or satisf~·ing. The number of efficient boys who can give the time necessary for managing a team is infinitesimal. To put the management into the hands of incapables, who arc inher- ently inefficient, is doing justice neither to the managers themsclYes nor the athletics of the institution, and is surely creating difficulties which only close faculty supervision can control.
However our teams may be ma11agcd, those who direct our athletics haYe several problems to solve correctly, and that directly. Since these problems arc more or less mutually in- tcn·elatcd, their solution consequently requires all the greater case.
To obtain the maximmn return from a necessarily small athletic fee is the first consideration. When it is realized that by our location very few games can be scheduled close at hand, the difficulty presented here becomes of gi'eat im- portance. On the other band, Lynchburg is an attracth·e city to visit, and so we are given an opportunity of a. fairly w.idc selection of opponents. llere the G. A. A. has already made
some excellent beginnings, along which we should move in the future. Under no considerations should schools be in-