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http://alumni.msu.edu/magazine/article.cfm?id=2507
Just thought my fellow expansionistas might enjoy this. The whole article is good. This caught my eye:
Just thought my fellow expansionistas might enjoy this. The whole article is good. This caught my eye:
MSU President way back when said:Hannah frequently argued that sports were important to a university and that if entrance into the Big Ten enhanced the athletic program, the entire university community would benefit. “I have always thought that a sound athletic program was good for a university,” he later wrote. “It is good for the athletes, if they are full-time, bona fide students who must maintain satisfactory standards of scholarship and performance.
Athletics unify a university probably more than any other feature of the institution. They merge the enthusiasm of students, alumni, faculty, friends and supporters of the university, and all to the university’s good.”