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ties of mind and character not provided for in the college curriculum, but yet just as essential to success in life as the instruction of the class-room. It calls into action the faculty of organization, it brings out your executive power, the power you have to control men. and in return to give faithful obedience to those placed over you. But aside from ' the advantages the system offers to students.it gives an opportxmity to professors to become better acquainted with these placed in their charge. There is no better place than on the ball field or in the gymasium for professors to mingle with their students and show them that they are in sympathy with them, that they are together interested in a common g ' ood. these places offer an opportunity to overcome the chilling reserve of the class-room. We believe if professors would go out. not only to witness the g-ames and contests, but to take part occasionally, they would find their time well spent, their students would become more cordial, they would have more interest in the welfare of the college, and when they had completed their course they would go out into the world with warmer interests for their Alma Mater. To turn now from the more g ' eneral subjects of athletics, to athletics as we find them in Jlonmouth CoUcg-e. we are at a loss to know just what ought to be said. There surely is wisdom as well as policj ' in the old saying-, that the truth is not to be told at all times. but we believe it our duty as well as privilege to give to those who shall read these lines as correct a knowledge of athletics in our college as possible. We are glad to be able to saj ' that the outlook is encouragirg. There is a general awakeiiing among both students and faculty, and why should there not be ? Monmouth College is now the possessor of a fine athletic field. It is situated on East Broadway, four blocks east of the Colleg ' e. and comprises ten acres. The grounds are exceedingly level, and with a little more work can be made as good as any athletic field in the country. We. as students, cannot be too grateful to those who have been instrumental in securing the grounds. It gives us something that we can take aninterest in. a starting point to build up an organization which will accomplish something. Heretofore we have excused our pour success on our meagre advantag ' es. and such was indeed the fact. We had to rent our own grounds, we had to level off our liall diamonds every year: the work and money ex- pended to be of use for only the one season. Under s ich circumstances there was nothing to encourage athletic spirit. There was no incentive to work. Our athletics were spasmodic in every sense of the word. We would take courage and work hard for a time until some great difficulty would rise p before us which would be too great for our feeble efforts and pocket-books, and we would find ourselves back just where we were at first. But we can no longer have these difliculties to excuse our poor work. If we do not play winning ball or make speedy time in our races, it is to a great degree our own fault. We have the material among our students which, when developed, will compete with that of any western school. It is amazing the degree of success that has attended the efforts made in the past history of the College. Our ball team used to be able to shut out the Kno.x team, who in their own minds will soon be champions of the world, and to play a close game with a score of seven to eight witli the State university. Again, last fall, at the inter- ollegiate contests at Galesburg. our boys caused the professional team of Knox, with their ten men, to tremble, until the tenth man had plaj ' cd an excel- lent game and made several scores. Now. boys, with the necessary work on oxir part and the proper spirit mani- fested on the part of all. we can do so again. What we need now is practice. Let every one go out to the 65
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grounds as often as he can and take part in the games, and while he is there play for all that is in him. What- ever position you are filling for the time, whether on the hall team or in the tennis court, fill it to the best of j ' our ability. Play not only for yourself, but try to do something along these lines. If you aspire to become a pitcher, try it whenever the way is open to you. If you want to be able to make a star kick at goal, when there is an enthusiastic crowd of foot ball admirers looking on, pi-actiee that. lUit don ' t think that because you have twirled the ball through a hole in the bat a time or two, and fanned a batter out. or made a brilliant or rather accidental tackle or kicked goal nicely when there is nothing at stake, that you are a sure candidate for the different teams, and if you fail to get the desired position refuse to practice any more, and accuse the manage- ment of having his favorites and placing them in the positions reg ' ardless of ability. The man who has such a disposition is narrow-minded in every sense of the word, and until he gets such ideas out of his self-conceited frame he will amount to nothing on the ball field or in anything else he may undertake. Harmony is just as essential for success in an athletic association as in any other organization of men. Some of us have had a little experience in selecting men for team work, and we have found it a hard place to fill. From our limited number of athletically-inclined students it is difificult to decide just who should play this and that position. We would, be only too glad if the candidates for the different places were so well qualified that several could play the same position equally well. The prospects for athletics in our College ai ' e encouraging-, and with the proper interest of the students and necessary inducements by those at the head of our College, for students to play certain positions which not every one can fill, thei-e is no reason why Monmouth College cannot come off victorious at the inter-colleg ' iate contest at ' Jacksonville, ne.xt fall. Vhile we are indeed thankful for what has been done for us as students, yet we are not yet satisfied. What Monmouth College now needs is a gymnasivim. We do not agitate the building of a gymnasium simply because the students need it, hut also because the College needs it. In this age of colleges, when their courses of study are much the same, and a young- man can get a good practical education in any of them, inducements have to be offered in some other line, and we believe they are found in the advantages of athletics. — XJje cost of an educa- tion is about the same in any of our colleges, and students are sure to look for the best advantages. That college which can offer inducements in all these lines is sure to prosper. There is a Y. M. C. A. gymnasium in the city, but it does not meet the needs of the students. Because of its distance from the College, and because the most of its members are fi ' om the city, with whom the students are not acquainted, but few are members of the associa- tion. It in no way meets the needs of a college gymnasium. Some ten years ag ' o a move was made by the students to equip a gymnasium if the College would build one by the next year. We clip the following from the ' ■ College Courier of the spring of ' St: • ' The subject of the gymnasium, which has so deeplj ' interested the students during the past term, and which met with so much favor among the faculty and trustees, was not so favorably i-eceived by the Senate as had been anticipated: how- ever, a committee was appointed to look up plans and cost of buildings, and report at the meeting next year. This move is a little discouraging to the students as they all felt sure of sviccess this time, and when we take
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