American Decades
"Some 'Defects and Excesses of Present-Day Athletic Contests,' 1929"
Report
By: Henry S. Pritchett
Date: 1929
Source: Pritchett, Henry S. "Some 'Defects and Excesses of Present-Day Athletic Contests,' 1929." In American College Athletics, Bulletin Number Twenty-Three. Howard J. Savage, ed. New York: Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, 1929. Preface, xiv–xvii. Reprinted in Readings in American Educational History. Edgar W. Knight and Clifton L. Hall, eds. New York: Appleton-Century Crofts, 1951, 598–601.
About the Author: Henry S. Pritchett (1857–1939) received a bachelor's degree in 1875 from the Collegiate Institute at Glasgow, Missouri. In 1895, he earned a doctorate in astronomy from the University of Munich. Pritchett was a professor of astronomy at Washington University, superintendent of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, and president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.). He...
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