University of Nevada - Artemisia Yearbook (Reno, NV)

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Here in quiet moments the convalescent will dream and dream until he will understand what the Hoosier Poet means as he sings: When our souls are cramped with youth, Happiness seems far awa v In the future, while, in truth. We look back on it to-day. As I turn to the subject ot College Athletics, I am reminded that the average industrious man wonders whv college men professors, graduates and students — develop so much enthusiasm for and in athletic sports. Many men too of high standing in business and professional Hfe are asking critical questions of college faculties as to the effect of college athletics upon the morals and scholarship of the average student. It must be admitted that the President and Professors of the Nevada State University have co-operated in a verv efficient way with the students in the development of such sports as football, basketball and track events. Without this co-operation our students would have had little opportunity to prove themselves capable of meering successfully the students of the Universities of California and Utah, and ot the Stanford University, upon the athletic field, and of winning rec- ognition among the college athletes of the Pacific Coast. Onlv by the spirit ot earnest, sympathetic cooperation between the students and the tacultv in all college enterprises will Our Universitv be able to maintain its present standing in college athletics, or, what is more to the point, be able to make satisfactory progress in discipline and winning power from vear to vear. I am inclined U) the opinion that the chief obstacle to such thorough-going co-operation lies in the inability ot the student mind to grasp the importance and desirability of the kind of co-operation which is here suggested. Yet it must be accomplished, it we aspire to place our college athletics upon a high plane and if we mean to compete with distinction upon the fields of Calitornia and Stanford. The Faculties ot Colleges and Universities approve college field sports and take a vigorous interest in them because thev think that field sports among college men do contribute to the achievement of the substantial aims of college lite. Knowledge and training in technical

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rooms on the north side are devoted to photography, which has become a very valuable adjunct to modern scientific investigation. Two store rooms for the use of the station laboratories fill out the north-west corner. Finally you may slip into the cozy office of the Professor of Chemistry just round the corner of the staircase landing and receive a cordial welcome. What the compledon of the new Chemistry Building means to the University can only be appreciated by those intimately associated with University needs. For several years the laboratory facilities in chemistry have been inadequate to the demands. Two to three students to every desk in a room without proper vendlanon; water supplies stored in barrels, and drainage pipes liable to cough and choke at any moment — these conditions have made lite a burden to the Professor of Chemistry and his assistants. Now all this is changed. The Department of ' ■ Chemistry is fittingly housed for manv years to come. The Students ' Hospital is a departure in style and purpose from the traditional college - ' - ' - building. It is cottage-like, built of pressed brick, with exterior wood work pamted ivory white. The windows and doors are unusually large, on the theory that abundance of air and sunshine is an important element in the cure of disease and in restoration to health. The sheltered veranda sag- a gests outdoor cheer for the invalid. The indoor sitting room with open wood fire-place speaks of ■ ■ - - ll . fo- comfort for the convalescent. The two wards upon the east side belong to the young women. ,,,. , % Five to ten panents can be taken care of in these wards. On the west side are two similar wards ■ « for young men. The bath rooms, toilets and kitchen provide suitable conveniences for the care of ffr.,. .• ■ - ' -i the sick. Here the truly sick will be nursed back to health and study privileges by Grand- ' , mother Elkins, who is a good nurse and knowing physician and petting mother all in one to her , , students. Here will be sent the too-sick- to-go-to-rccitation students, who will be put to bed for the rest cure. Thev will not be permitted to talk or read. They will just rest, rest, rest, undl they find that to study and go to classes is a divine privilege. Here the good physician will come at call to see with keen eye the hidden fortress of disease, and then with skilled hand to break in the fevered gates and let nature ' s blessed life-restoring forces cleanse and build anew. 17

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skill belong to the disciplines of college study, but practice in the things of action belongs to college life. College education looks to the com- plete man, the complete woman. Life is many sided. The weakness of much of modern educational method is acquirement made easy. The peril of modern college life is to be on pleasure bent. Simple pleasures are to be cultivated. Out-door recreation which brings into play all the bodily powers, which makes for fellowship with sun and air, earth and sky, mountain and plain, trees and shrubs, has a vital rela- tion to the life strenuous or the life beautiful and successful. Health is wealth. Intellect and sentiment — the social element — is not wanting in genuine sport. In the University, football, basketball, track events and tennis meet the requirements of well-balanced pleasure for college students. The cultivation of a taste for outdoor lite, tor health-givmg sport, in a University like ours is exceptionally important. The range ot social pleasure is exceedingly limited. One may count upon the fingers ot one hand the prevailing forms of social pleasure in this State, and scarcely one of these belongs to outdoor life. College athletics properly governed minister to the advantages ot a larger and richer college training. They are the condiment to the varied good things of scholarship and skill. To me our tbotball season this year was both gratifying and disappointing. P The interest of the students during the season of practice was stronger and better L sustained than during any former term. The coaching was well done, and the gen- eral management of men and games fairlv satisfactory. We all learned some valuable lessons from the season ' s experience. In the first place, the football season was too prolonged. The men were kept in training too many weeks. This operated untavorablv in two ways: it kept men out of their classes more frequently than was desirable, and it permitted a distinct loss of enthusiasm and power. In the next place, the two large games, one with the Universitv of California team and the other the Stanford University team, came too close together. No team, however well seasoned the men mav be, should play two strong match games of football within the same week. The score ot the game with Utah was far from gratifying. Our men did not do their best work. In mv judgment, our football men made marked progress and showed a capacity for strong and even brilliant work, but have not yet