Show ATHLETIC FOR ALL ill its new system of physical training to include the entire student body the university of pennsylvania has established ono of its most valuable courses college athletics have always been open tp criticism by reason of the fact that they seized won the big powerful men and made physical prodigies of them while the men who were really in aced of ane gymnasium and the athletic bad no part whatever in this phase of college life these weaklings wea klings were the ones who were expected to carry off the intellectual honors it was as though the usages of college life bad set up I 1 some illogical law of compensation which decreed that the student who was physically lacking should content with the cultivation of bis powers of mind and that the student who was blessed with big bones and ha a 01 t slip through his course with low marks and a long list of conditions it athletics arc worth anything at all it ia as roean 0 supplying bodily equipment for mental labor tin men who arc naturally vigorous and brainy are the ones who might I 1 properly be expected to sit up oer latin greek and mathematics and to bend their broad shoulders ocr a desk into the wee hours ot morning if tho football acain coul be kept in the study and the study contingent kept in franklin field would be more evenly l alancen the purpose of the new gymnastic course is to see treat athletics are ar ministered to those who need them it will stop short of locking the football team in tho study perhaps but it will see to it that the hollow chest od stoop shouldered student spends a sufficient amount of time in the gymnasium and ia open air an games to insure his physical as well as his mental progress it will assault with all its might the fallacious idea that unless a student can excel in game which require speed strength of dexterity he should not play them and it will instill into the ivr studious a proper appreciation of the tact that a man cannot think his best when he is suffering from a bodily ailment or bodily weakness |