Taylor University - Ilium / Gem Yearbook (Upland, IN)

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Intramural athletics began very early in the Upland period. At least as early as 1898 the school sponsored baseball, bicycle, and tennis clubs, and an annual field day of track events. By 1909, the Taylor officials strongly encouraged the students to participate in basketball, baseball, and tennis; and in the wintertime, many students walked the two miles to the Mississinewa River to ice skate. In the period before the introduction of intercollegiate athletics, the late-spring track meet between representatives of the two Uterary societies (the Philo-Thalo meet) served as one of the sports highlights of each year. While the college encouraged intramural athletics in early years, it strongly discouraged the specific sport of football and intercollegiate athletics. 4 OO Opening

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The school leaders carefully planned the daily schedule for each student. They explicitly designated as study periods the hours between eight and twelve in the mor- ning, one-thirty and four-thirty in the after- noon, and seven and ten in the evening. When a student was not attending a class during these hours, the college expected him to be studying in his dormitory room, and no student could visit in another student ' s room during study hours. These study hours applied to the weekdays and Saturday after- noon and evening. All of the copy in this opening section has been copied from the 1913 Gem, the forerun- ner of the nium. Opening CX 3

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