Slippery Rock University - Saxigena Yearbook (Slippery Rock, PA)

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safety valve for overwrought sophomores as well as a receptive audience for the achievements and prowess of his sophisticated brothers and sisters. We have been all of these. We have borne sophomore pleasantries with equanimity and heroic stoicism. We have gaped in wide-eyed wonderment at the accomplishments of our upper classmen. But our contributions have not all been passive. We have given our young, eager enthusiasm to all the college enterprises. We have an unusual number of able representatives on the basketball and football teams. Our intellectual possi- bilities are sound. That We have adjusted ourselves to campus life is shown by the representation of the blue and white in extra-curricular activities. What we do with our future is our task. ln our hands we have the finest of tempered metal to be hammered out by our powers. We intend to create an image that is fine, unblemished, and beautiful.

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F RESHMAN 0 Ah, the touching futility of a violin with a broken bow or artistic fingers Without a paint brush! Alas, the pathos of a nursery barren of childish laughter or a college without a freshman. The freshman is the indispensable element to college atmosphere, the evening ingredient. He is at once court jester, official goat, errand boy,

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SLIPPERY ROCK ATHLETICS Another sensational chapter was added to the stirring history of athletics here at Slippery Rock with the completion of the current season. The Rockets have just passed through one of the hardest athletic seasons in its history, but the co-operation of everyone con- cerned made it a successful one. - In looking back over the history of the school we find that athletics were run on a scholarship basis up until 1917 when, in order to raise the standards of the school, scholarships were done away with. The athletics were given over to the student boys under the supervision of an athletic committee, composed of members of the faculty. The school authorities and ofiicials can point with pride to the fact that throughout all the following years Slippery Rock has remained a win- ning team on the non-scholarship basis. With this champion and non-commercial status has remained a high degree of sportsmanship. Sportsmanship in itself means fair play. It means having a little respect for the other fellow's point of view. It means a real application of the golden rule. In contests like track athletics, tennis, baseball, swimming, etc., where the competition doesn't involve so much mental stress and strain, sportsmanship has reached a very fine level. It is more difficult for a football or basketball squad and coach to get the proper point of view. This is due to the fact that the very fierceness of the contest produces emotional clouds, making it difficult for judgment and fair play to pierce this dense fog of emotionalism. However, fair play has dominated in all Slippery Rock sports. When a Rocket team has won, the coach is as generous as possible in his comments on the losing team and the losing coach. .Bragging and gloating have no place in these circles of erudition. Green officials feel that when a team loses the losing coach should give full credit to the other team, regardless of conditions. An alibi or a flock of alibis is entirely out of order. The feeling between the student bodies has been one of exhilara- tion, and the coaches have done all in their power to eliminate that