Monmouth College - Ravelings Yearbook (Monmouth, IL)

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into account the fiict that between three and four hundi-ed dollars were subscribed by them toward equipping: the gymnasium if the Senate should build one by next term, we think there is just cause for discourag-ement. However, we can hope for success next year. A decade has gone by. and yet there has been nothing ' done. We cannot but believe that Monmouth College would have been better off to-da y. both financially and in the number of students, if the Senate had taken favorable action in this matter at that time. We trust that when the senate meets this spring something definite will be done in this matter. Let Senate, Faculty, students and all the friends of Old Monmouth do all in their power to so equip our College that the number of students shall be greatly increased, and that she may be able to compete successfully with any of our colleges. ' ' ■■TH. T KNOX B.WQUET.

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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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QYfiQEFg. STATE ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION. President — W. H. McCaughlin. Blackburn University. Vice Pre.sident — S. L. Cox, Knox College. Seci-etary and Treasurer — .1. E. Clifford, Illinois College. MONMOUTH ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION. President — Bert Miller. Secretary and Treasurer — D. W. Hogue. Committee to Confer with Faculty — J. C. Hamilton. D. M. Moore. Lew Wallace. Directors of Athletic Grounds — Ralph Gi-aham. George Niblock. J. W. Clendenin. Officrrs Chosf.n by Associ.vtion: Manager of Base Ball Team — S. W. McKelvey. Manager of Foot Ball Team — .1. T. Miller. Captain of Base Ball Team — J. C. Hamilton. Captain of Foot Ball Team—,]. T. JHller.