Excerpt from Athletics at Iowa Freshmen are not permitted to compete on 'varsity teams, It is first of all required that they learn how to study and that they acclimate themselves to university atmosphere. The Uni versity is a place for work, for serious effort on the part of the student to equip himself better for later life. The University, in attempting to build up athletic prestige, has kept uppermost in importance the necessity for good scholarship. The man Who is to make good in scholarship and athletics at the University is the man Who in his own heart desires to come to Iowa. The University wants most the student Who most wants to come, and in the degree in which a student is eager to succeed in athletics andin the classroom, in precisely that same degree can he achieve the things Which he sets out to do. The student Who enrolls at Iowa for the purpose of making an athletic team injures both the university and himself. Every year a few high school athletes of. Ability register in the Univer sity and expect, apparently, to be retained as students or per witted to play on Iowa teams regardless of their standing in the classroom. They disappear. Some return home; some remain, but their work is of such character that they are never eligible for athletics. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.