Private Football

When Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia University, issued his philippic on professionalization of college football, and called on the alumni to free college athletics from its servitude to public patronage, other colleges were interested but dubious (TIME, Jan. 5). They felt that nothing much would come of it. Last week a committee of the Columbia Alumni Federation met in Manhattan and made something come of it. They voted $50,000 of the alumni fund to support Dr. Butler's program. Said Dr. Butler, gratified, "If three or four institutions will unite in this undertaking we may place the whole enterprise on a really academic basis and relegate the public to the role of spectator."

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