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About The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current | View Entire Issue (April 30, 1915)
THE n AILY NEBBASKAN SENIOR BREAKFAST TOMORROW MORNIN Everything Prepared for Upperclats men An Unlimited Number of Tickets on Sale by Juniors For the Junior-Senior picnic new plans are making daily. The latest feature is the band that led the Laws to their barbeque yesterday morning It is working on several new selec tlons and such old favorites as "Hot Time," "Aunt Rhody," and "Tipper ary." Many rusty Seniors were seen work ing out tennis arms yesterday. Two Senior girls were doing a cross-coun try in preparation for base-running Saturday. It is even rumored that some of the "co-eds" have already begun cooking the breakfast. Tickets are going fast. The sale is not limited, so there's still a chance to attend the first Junior-Senior picnic at Nebraska. R FOR YOUR DEN R U BEAUTIFUL COLLEGE U PENNANTS Yale and Harvard Each 9 la. z 24 la. PRINCETON, CORNELL, MICHIGAN Each 7 in. z 21 la. 4 PENNANTS, She 12x304 Any Leading College of . Your Selection All of our best quality, la their proper colon, with colored em blems. Either assortment, for limited time, seat postpaid for 50 cents and fire stamps to cover ship ping costs. Write us fom prices before placing orders for felt novelties of all kinds. THE GEM CITY NOVELTY CO. 6224 BittAer Street Dayton, Ohio University Jeweler and Optician C. A. TUCKER JEWELER S. S. SHEAN OPTICIAN 1123 O St. YIUw Front Your ratronag Solicited SPA If Get your Lunches at the City Y. M. C. A., Cafeteria Plan 13TH AND P POPULAR PRICED MENS' f 111 J 1 1 i ( V a t. mm .. m v v mvm. m mr " IS Why Not buy that suit now? No use delaying any longer. You will find our prices right. See our line at $15.00 The Need For. and Benefits Derived From, Participation In Track Athletics R. G. Clapp It is now generally recognized that the body is the machine with which we do all of our work whether that work is mental or physical. A person with a body weakened by disease neglect, or misuse will be able to do better mental work than physical, but it is a generally accepted fact that the young man with a "sound mind in a sound body" has the best chances of success In any line of endeavor which he may select for his life work be It mental or physical. Previous generations had plenty of opportunity for necessary physical exercise in out of-door work of a useful nature. The average boy and young man spent only a small part of the year in school or college and during this time he had enough "chores" around the home to provide the necessary physical exer cise, as this work was practically all physical. But conditions are now very different. A very considerable part of our work is done by machin ery. - The city Doy is now requirea 10 do but very little physical work in the form of small jobs around the house. In most cases in larger cities there are no chores to be done hence he must look to the various forms of athletics and gymnastics as an out let for his overflowing energy. While this is not equally true of the country boy it is true that the development of farm machinery has taken away much of his former active work. He may be tired at night after using a riding plow all day, but sitting cramped over the seat of any piece of farm machinery (as usually hap pens) is not a desirable form of physical work from the standpoint of hygiene and physical betterment. As a means of meeting the legiti mate demand of all boys and young men for active physical exercise, and at the same time providing a choice of events in which there is ample op portunity for the developing of unusual-ability in contests of speed. trength and endurance, track ath letics has no equal. It also has a great advantage over other team con tests iu that the individual may par ticipate to his heart's content in the track events in which he is interested and not be handicapped by the neces sity of securing a number of other participants to take part in the sport. From the standpoint of physical benefits derived, track athletics com pare favorably with all other forms of competitive athletics. In most track events the possibility of injury, ven in the most strenuous competi tion, is comparatively small. Such events as the dashes, hurdles, high and broad jumps, pole-vault and the weight events are referred to. The middle and long distance runs are usually classed among the athletic contests most likely to cause perma nent and serious . Injury to par ticipants. Unquestionably these re sults do occur. In most cases, how ever, they should be attributed not so much to the events themselves as to abuse of the same. No one should take part in these contests without long and thorough preliminary train ing, and when serious results occur they may almost invariably be traced to this cause or to the fact that the individual was not physically quali fied to do this type of work. The riter has noted with a great deal of satisfaction the very rapid growth of the track squad at the University of Nebraska this year. In all probaba bility the large majority of these stu dents will never become members of the "varsity" team, but they undoubt edly will derive a large amount of physical benefit from their participa tion. In fact, those who have made study of the question of the physical effect of athletics on participants rec ognize the fact that strenuous ath letic competition Is temporarily and sometimes permanently detrimental to the physical welfare of the par ticipants and that the individual who obtains the greatest physical benefit from taking part in any athletic sport is the one who does not take part In the over-strenuous contests where the importance of the same is greatly ex aggerated and the individual is there by induced to overstrain To be sure, there are certain ad vantages in the development of char acter which to some extent may be niH to counteract the ill effects of the strenuous competition mentioned above, and it is the writer's opinion that, in this country, it would be prac tically impossible to secure any con siderable degree of participation in track athletics and any other line of the so-called competitive athletics. without keen inter-colleglate competi tion, and he believes further that the net resultant of the two antagonistic forces, I. e., the positive benefits of the training and the possible detri mental effects of the competition, show a distinct benefit. Undoubtedly the individual who gets the greatest amount of physical benefit and pleas ure out of this work is the one who takes the English viewpoint of mak ing it "sport for sport's sake." The most important aim of all physical training work is the develop- ment of the vital organs, especially the heart and lungs. In relation to other branches of physical "training work, track athletics stand out very strongly in this regard. Track ath letics cannot be considered in the same class with various forms of gym nastic work in the matter of muscular development. In reality, work of tnls type develops the quality rather than the quantity of muscular tissue, and therefore our records of measure ments do not show anything like the same muscular tissue in the track athlete as in the gymnast, yet in actual muscular power there is prob ably little difference in the develop ment. Track athletics also develop to a high degree many valuable char acteristics such as courage, persever ance and the like. When considered from the stand point of the general benefits resulting from properly conducted track ath letic sport and from the standpoint of interest and pleasure to the par ticipant, track athletics is a sport which deserves far greater recogni tion than it has ever received at the University of Nebraska. LAWS SPEND HOLIDAY AT CAPITAL BEACH Spend Annual Day's Vacation at Re sort Freshmen Win Baseball Honors Over Other Classes Two ball games and a lunch we're the only features of the annual Law barbeque, at Capital Beach yesterday. About one hundred enthusiastic Laws assembled outside the University gates and, headed by part of the cadet band, marched through the Library, after which they took cars for the Beach. First came a snappy game of baseball between the Freshmen and Junior classes. The batteries for the Freshmen were Victor Halligan and Vern Haggart, and for the Juniors, Griswold and Delamatre. The game was stopped at twelve o'clock for lunch. The score stood 12 to 2 for the Freshmen. Professor Pope, Doctor Maxey, and Dean Hastings were ready for the sandwiches and ice cream. Because of the late arrival of Mr. C. Petrus Peterson, speaker of the afternoon, the crowd had already ad journed to the ball park for another battle between the Freshmen and Juniors. Professor Pope was chosen to umpire. Temple and Neighbors were the opposing pitchers. The Freshmen, with the help of Halligan's batting and Presley's "fielding, again showed their superiority by a 7 to 3 verdict. By this time everybody was fully satisfied with this part of the day's recreation and the speeebmak Ing was admitted. L in - ssi THE University School effcic Established 1C04 Opposite lha University Campus Eleventh and R Ixi traction rivea la til branches of noslc. Students nay enroll at any time. 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