Show Gymnasium THE r HE football season just passed has shown very plainly our need of regular physical exercise it has also shown a few of the benefits to be derived derived derived de de- rived from physical training Several members of the football team were at atthe atthe atthe the beginning of the season almost sick men They were troubled wi with th throbbing throbbing throb throb- bing headaches sleepless pless nights and poor appetites When they first began playing they gave out in five minutes but by playing a little while three times a week and taking a short run every everyday everyday everyday day in three weeks' weeks time they could play an hour without tiring and the way they ate and slept was a caution Football exercise however is too violent for a large number of ot our students students students stu stu- dents and the tune e is now passing when even the fe few favored favored ones can have the advantage of it The weather i t will soon prevent outdoor exercise 1 and the question therefore presents itself more strongly than ever Are we to have C-have have a gymnasium The University of Utah has made y rapid advances along many lines but bu the little attention given to physical development in the past is not very flattering to the institution True we had a military department but partly partly because of lack of proper quarters for drill in bad weather and partly because t of a stiffness in the drill itself the required required required re re- good was not obtained The ladies still have the advantage of physical cal culture training but because of the large and rather unwieldy classes only those take it who are required to ti A gymnasium with even limited f apparatus if there there be graded classes and a competent instructor will meet i 1 it seems to us most requirements True we haven't much time for physical cal training We cannot as did the fi a ancient Greeks find time for luxurious bathing with oil and long exercise in the sunshine nor can we hope for foi anything like the perfectly i developed bodies models of beauty and strength that tha t characterized the Greek excellence of manhood But we can find time each day for short vigorous exercise exercise exercise exer exer- cise that will not only develop physically physically physically cally but will give us power to attack with much better success our mental i work There is in the body at best only a sluggish tendency to replace poor with better material and though the facilities at our disposal will be at first very meagre but if we can by regular moderate exercise destroy the poor and useless organic material of our muscles and arouse the organism into i active efforts for its t replacement our time will not be wasted And then muscular development is not all there is isto isto isto to exercise If we desire to possess maximum vigor we must have large lung capacity and most of all a stout heart and elastic arteries Physical exercise destroys the degenerating substance substance substance sub sub- stance in the muscles of the heart and thus arouses the organism to substitute newer and more useful substance in them Exercise increases the blood tension and thereby causes the arteries to carry more nourish nourishment men t to the heart and arterial walls This increased blood tension is also the means of drawing drawing drawing draw draw- ing the blood from the over-charged over brain and changing the sluggish currents currents currents cur cur- rents of all the half-dilated half blood channels channels channels chan chan- nels of the body into swift streams of lively blood All physiologists understand understand understand under under- stand with respect to the respiratory system that in order to faster get rid of waste gases and to obtain needed oxygen the respirations are increased in amount and frequency The lungs are necessarily called upon to do more work during muscular exertion and the lung tissues are of course increased O 0 yes some of our progressive students sa say we know all about the benefits of exercise and the utility of a gymnasium but what's the use to talk about it We haven't a gymnasium and we cant can't afford to get one It is true that we cannot afford to get a fully equipped gymnasium at once but we can afford to get a few of the most needed pieces of apparatus and anci if we make a start even a small one the benefits will become more moie apparent and it will not be long till we will have havea a first-class first The Athletic Association is doing good work and if it takes hold of th this is matter in the right way it will surely make a success of it The room now no used by the physical culture class could be fitted up with chest weights and other simple apparatus and we think enough enthusiastic en students would become interested to insure the success of the movement |