Big C

The Big C Society, student and alumni letter-men's organization at the University of California, fortnight ago announced a project the nature of which would cause an ethical shudder if proposed in the East. The Big C will appoint a fulltime representative to canvass secondary and high schools for young athletes and tell them about California "as a place of clean athletics combined with sound scholastic standards." The Big C man will be paid a salary. The Big C asks friends to help. Funds will be audited, kept out of the hands of athletes. Needy men may be helped to get jobs, "but only bona fide jobs."

California's tall, blond President Robert Gordon Sproul, who usually speaks in a booming voice, commented warily: "I should prefer, of course, that athletes should come to the University without any solicitation whatever, even on the basis of the superior educational advantages we have to offer. The fact is, however, that high school stars are seldom, if ever, permitted to select a college or university on any such basis. ... I shall watch . . . with interest and hope."

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