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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.
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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.
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