R ECENTLY president of University of North Carolina, in a printed statement to his board of trustees, submitted a striking program having to do with athlete and his college. This platform draws tightly certain restrictions about that earnest youth in all matters relating to his amateur status. A plethora of taboos is established, and every activity where money is involved becomes subject to scrutiny of college authorities. This document cannot be taken lightly, at least for a few years yet, because it is so firm, so rigid, and so reactionary to stun those who have been hoping for some mite of liberalism to appear in thinking of college presidents they guide destinies of athletic programs. Furthermore, report is concurred with by letter, if not by public statement, by presidents of Harvard, Minnesota, Yale, Kansas, and probably others who were not listed. The positions assumed were drawn up, signed, and submitted to Southern Athletic Conference and National Collegiate Athletic Association by presidents of six member colleges-the Virginia Polytechnic Institute, University of Maryland, Washington and Lee University, North Carolina State College, University of Virginia, and University of North Carolina. It was presented a timely rejoinder to action of Southeastern Conference which in autumn of I935 recognized right of athlete to receive financial aid or its equivalent while playing on college athletic teams. In brief, these presidents of Southern Conference hold that any athlete shall be declared ineligible for competition if he as a consideration for his athletic ability . . . receives . . .preferential consideration in matter of tuition, fees, room, board, clothes, books, charge accounts, job, loan, scholarship or any other financial aid or material whatever. This does not actually say that an athlete may not receive such help, but this implication is clearly set forth in introductory paragraph which says that report seeks to make clear the present prohibition of scholarships, loans, jobs and all other material considerations for athletes athletes. It goes on to say further that scholarships may not be awarded on basis of athletic skill, that all such scholarships must be open to nonathletes on basis of character, scholarship, financial need, competence for any specific task [sic!], and