Show STUDENT LIFE it would be to issue a proclamation setting forth rules for the lower classmen to follow The plan was a good one It caused the classes for the two weeks at least to be united If we need one thing in this school more than anything else it is class spirit and patriotism and why do we not have it? Is it because we have so much work in school that we can not devote any of our time to our class organizations? Or is it because we are too slack too easy going to do things that we are not compelled to do? It is not because we are d for those who over-worke- are carrying the heaviest courses are the ones who as a general rule are doing most in the class organizations Shall we admit that it is the second reason? Instead let us all work to remedy the evil Create a little class rivalry That will do as much toward uniting the members of the different classes as anything Second year's challenge the First year’s for a and put the rooters off the game of basket-ba- ll fieid if they cheer too much for the opposing team Juniors challenge the Seniors to a debating contest and show them that there are other students in the school Io anything that will create a little class rivalry and it will not be long until we can boast of the class spirit and patriotism in the A C Tfce Ain of Physical Training Is physical training essential lor me? Is it worth while? These are the questions a thinking man asks himself when he has an opportunity to engage in college athletics A young man comes to college to get an education What is the aim of this education? One noted educator has said that it is to gain “the highest development of the best possibilities of the individual” We may further distinguish between spiritual education which trains one in the moral purposes of man: intellectual education which shall develop an enlightened intellect: and physical education which while partaking in a measure of the essentials of the first two divisions has an educational aim of its own This aim was stated as follows by a national committee on physical education “It is the purpose of the system to develop the whole body and its parts symmetrically and harmoniously to preserve increase or produce bodily health strength and perfection and to maintain and promote physical activity dexterity and efficiency” “Exercise!” Some husky lad will echo disdainfully “Look at that arm from pitching hay” We must remember that bodily strength is perhaps one of the least important benefits of physical exercise We must not lose sight of the fact that a muscle is not a simple organ but that it is made up of two clearly distinguishable yet parts first a contractable executive mechanism the muscle-propand then a stimulating regulating guiding part consisting of the gray matter of the brain and spinal cord with the connecting nerve fibres One may pitch hay all summer and gain a tremendous development of the arm and back muscles but in the end these muscles have been taught but one trick You are no better able to run jump or save yourself from a bad fall you will learn no more easily to use a saw or a hammer or to do the thousand and one things required of a man in active life Activity dexterity and efficiency are enumerated in our aim of physical training A man must know how to use his strength that he may apply himself to the various demands of life with ease and confidence In fact as the S weeds put it “the body must be subservient to the will” Not that by a great effort the body should act as the will dicates but that the muscles of the body should respond willingly and easily to the mere wish of the individual One young college athlete learning the building trade was the wonder of all of the “men on the job” because at the first try he could strike either right or left handed lie has left the men still wondering why he could learn so rapidly and has passed on over old and experienced tradesmen It is matter of record that the time consumed by athletic exercises is in no way detrimental to the athlete’s standing in scholarship On one occasion when the subject was under discussion the faculties of Yale and Harvard ive er |