Reed College - Griffin Yearbook (Portland, OR)

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REED COLLEGE ANNUAL 4- 1915 I871 ATHLETICS EED College athletics is conducted for every stu- dent in the institution. This expresses briefly the Reed ideal and for this reason intercollegiate ath- letics, with the development of the few students who need it least at the expense of the many who need it most, forms no part of the Reed system. Instcd, the aim of the college is to help every student to keep in good fysical condition. In order to accomplish this purpose an efflcient system of intracollegiate athletics has been workt out. Track meets, tennis and handball turnaments, match contests in baseball, football, basketball, soccer, hocky and vollyball ar held. Regu- lar gymnasium work, with boxing and restling classes, and, in a few cases, eorrectiv exercises, is also given. There 211' thus enuf branches of athletics for everyone to engage in. Everyone at Reed does not mean merely the men. It also includes the women of the college, as wel as most of the mem- bers of the faculty. The women haV basketball, tennis, hand- ball. baseball. vollyball, hocky and basketball to keep them busy, while the faculty men hav a team in every sport except foot- ball. The women hav as keen. if not keener, competition as the men, while the faculty representativs ar near the top in every branch of athletics. THE ATHLETIC COUNCIL Athletic activities ar under the direct control of the stu- dents. This control is secured thru the Athletic Council, a body of seven men and seven women members. This group, which has representativs from each of the four classes, organizes, pro- vides for, and conducts all athletic activities. A system of rewards for athletes has also been workt out by the Athletic Council. These rewards play little part as an ineentiv to competitors, but merely serv as a fitting means of recognizing athletic ability. A clas numeral is given for making two clas teams in one year, while letters ar given to those who make two all-star teams in one year or one all-star team for three years. Five major sports ar recognized both for men and for women, and all star teams at chosen by a faculty com- mittee in each of these sports. This spring an amendment was made to the constitution to ad two students, members of the Athletic Council, to this committee; and, in this way, to giv the students, who ar in close tnch with the situation, some power in the selection of these teams. The system is stil imperfect, as any system of rewards must be.

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1881 REED COLLEGE ANNUAL 41 1915 Altho the constitution provides for separate meetings of men and women, the council usually comes together as one body. Three men and three women at chosen by the senior cias, two men and two women from the juniors, and one man and one woman from each of the two loer classes. The presi- dent and Vice-president respectivly ar at the heds of the separate menis and womens council, while the president is at the lied of the entire body. The nrst council elected near the close of the first year of the college was composed of three men and three women. Mil- ton Runyan and Edna Metcalf wer its president and Vice-presi- dent, and held offis until the fall of the third year of the col- lege. Lucile Boyd was secretary, and the other members wer Donald Lancefield, Elton Loucks and Dorothy Walton. The main work of this council was the drawing 11p of an athletic constitution including the organization of the council and of the system of reward for athletes. Altho the task was partly accomplisht, the system of awards was completely changed, by the following council, to the basis mentiond above. Athletic activities wer also started by the first council, regularly scheduled contests taking place in each of the 111611,S fwe major sports, tennis, football, basketball, track and baseball, while the women had tennis, basketball and track competition. The second council, elected in the fall of 1913, was the first to be chosen under the provisions of the new constitution. David Brace, Kenneth Tomlinson, Wynn Redman, Edna Met- calf Edna Acheson and Katharine Piggott we1 chosen by the juniors, and Arcl 1iba1d C1ark,Hanld Smith Marion RopeI andi Margaret Walton wer the sofomore representativs Paul Rittenberg and Emma Dubruilie wer chosen by the freshmen. David Brace was elected president, Edna X1etcalf,vice-p1esi- dent, Marion Roper, secretary and Kenneth Tomlinson, tres- urer. This council immediately took 11p the work of changing the basis of rewards with the result mentiond above. Their work consisted chiefly in the further organization of different activities for the increast number of students. The third council, which was elected last fall, was the first with the ful membership of fourteen. Ellis Jones, Forrest Jenne, Alvin Bradford, Bess Owens, Eunice Townsend, and Neil Brown wer chosen by the seniors; Henry Norman, Dean Webster, Juanita Parker and Dorothy Coftin represented the juniors. The' sofomores elected Alvin Shagren and Dorothy Elliott; the freshmen chose Frank Pearcy and VVihnoth Osborne. Ellis Jones was elected presi- dent; Bess Owens, vice-president; Alvin Bradford, secretary; and Henry Norman, tresurer. This council started the system of giving general charge of a sport to one member, who was directly responsible for activity in that line. Some much needed work was also started by this council in collecting the athletic records of the college. Two members took up this work and, with meager and scat-