Millikin University - Millidek Yearbook (Decatur, IL)

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N I N ET K I N !• L K V KN M I LL M K K JAMES NEWTON ASH MOKE Director of Physical Training Lincoln (111.) University, 1899-1902; University of Illinois special course in Physical ' ! raining, 1902-1903; Y. M. C. A. Summer School for Physical Director, 1901 ; Physical Director Washington State College, 1903- 1904; James Millikin University, 1904-1907; Western Mary- land College, 1907-1909. JAMES NEWTON ASHMORE MOLLIE GRUBEL Instructor in Physical Training for Women Illinois State Normal University, 1897-1898; University of Wisconsin, Summer Term, 1902; Harvard University, Physical Training Courses, 1903 and 1904. Chautauqua School of Physical Training, 1907. Teacher Decatur Public Schools and private gymnasium classes, 1899-1906; Physical Director, Decatur Y. W. C. A., 1906- 1907. When I was young I used to say good-natured things And nobody listened to me, now that I am old I say ill-natured things and everyone Is bound to listen. — Dean in Chapel. 23

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NINETEEN ELEVEN MILLIDEK $f)p£tcal framing All time and money spent in training the body pays a larger interest than any other investment. — Gladstone. Two years of Physical Training are required of all men and women in the Academy as one of the requirements for graduation. College men and women are required to take the courses in the freshman and sophomore years. The courses in gymnastics for women are conducted in the East Gym- nasium which is equipped with light apparatus especially suited to the needs of women. The work consists of hygienic, corrective and recreative exercises, including free gymnastics, fancy steps, rythmic gymnastics, clubs, wands, dumb-bells, tennis, and other games. It would be difficult to overestimate the benefit derived by the women of the school from this work. The efficiency of the courses is proved by the artistic exhibtion, which attracts so many people each year, known as the May-Pole Festival. This work is under the efficient direction of Miss Mollie Grubel. The Physical Training for men is conducted in the West Gymnasium which is equipped with heavy apparatus. The class work consists of march- ing, calisthenics, apparatus work, dumb-bell and indian club drills, individual and combination pyramid building, and indoor games. The department has made a slight departure in its methods this year and the results have been very gratifying. The change has only been a slight one and is simply that all drills have started with exercises as simple as possible and gradually worked into as complicated a series as the classes were able to master. The object being to teach control of the muscles (and give exer- cises) rather than to develop additional muscle when the men already lack- ed in control of the muscle on hand. The men who come to the classes to a large extent have had no previous training and consequently are lacking in co-ordination, in other words their chief characteristic is awkwardness. Hence the work has been adjusted to overcome in so far as possible this defect. The results in several cases have been very striking. Men have come to the classes at the beginning so lacking in co-ordination that there seemed to be lost motion in their stearing gear; the execution of the simplest action with them was as complicated as the May-Pole drill, tho less pleasing to the sight. Numbers Of these men became creditable performers, an evidence of the efficiency of the course. There was never a fair woman but she made mouths in the glass. — Dorothy Shade. 22

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NINETEEN ELEVEN MILLIDEK The Power Plant occupies the two east rooms of the Machinery Hall, and the greater part of the school year it presents a busy scene. It is the place where there is something doing all the time, night as well as day. If you have not been in these two rooms just step in and ask the engineer what things are for, he will gladly tell you. In the boiler room are four 125 II. P. Atlas fire tube boilers, which furnish steam for running the engines, and for heating the buildings. The POWER HOUSE electricity for light and power is furnished by two generators directly con- nected to high speed balanced valve engines, and is distributed to the various parts of the buildings from the switch board in the engine room. E. V. Chapman, Chief Engineer, started his engineering career at the age of sixteen, by making a steam engine, which is the first ambition of a boy who is inclined toward the engineering world. R. L. Welch, assistant engineer, has been a student in the engineering department for several years, and has had considerable experience in electrical and mechanical work. The two engineers with Walter Jinkens, the efficient fireman, constitute the Power Plant force and care for and operate the plant during the school year. Unpardonable presumption of being in the world. — Doctor Kellogg. 24