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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...stress and strain of war times many duties have been neglected and many opportunities passed by in the University. Attendance at Chapel comes under both of these classes. For not even the increased demand upon the time of the student is sufficient to excuse the poor showing which has been made in the last year and a half both at Sunday services and at week-day prayers...
...year's Freshman track team, is back in College and will be out to duplicate his record of last year in the hurdles, sprints, and high jump. J. Coggeshall '18, captain of the 1918 Freshman team, who was commissioned in naval aviation, has returned as an Out-of-Course student. He will run in the distance and relay races. Little is known about the material for the Freshman track team, but a number of new candidates are expected to report for practice this term...
These former students are now coming back to complete their education, but they will not tolerate the lack of vision with which so many of our colleges endeavor to crowd all their students into one little field for their recreation. They will still want intercollegiate competition, but they will also demand that the student spectators shall likewise be athletes. I think that some of the changes they will demand may be included in the following...
...Every student to choose some form of outdoor athletics in which he can compete with his fellows so that all may grow physically and morally...
...Training houses and training tables must go. They are the clearest evidence of a professional spirit. In proportion as they are emphasized the college athlete becomes less of the student. To say that he requires a special food, better food than his fellow student gets because he is an athlete leads to an absurdity. To take him out of his daily life as a student, house him separately, force him to go to bed every night at a definite hour, develops in him no qualities of self-discipline whatever. If he won't do this as an individual...