Waukesha High School - Megaphone Yearbook (Waukesha, WI)

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BASKETBALL TEAM Standing-Badciong, Manager. Golemgeskc, Evans, Wenger, Sullivan, Coach Saubert. Seated-Heywood, Lumb. Lynch, Conway, C. Robel. eliminating much of the physical development that a rural boy or girl gets. Physical growth is taken care of by recreational programs that build health along with character. The growth of higher moral and intellectual powers depends on the interaction of nerves and muscles. Football is looked upon as the crowning sport in the academic world, because it brings all-around development. This year the boys brought to our school the Suburban Football Championship for the fifth time in seven years. Being mem- bers of a championship squad is not the only reward for these boys. They have made friends that will be remembered for life. They found that the keynote in football is the ability to do something without the help of others. They learned to take severe criticism and hard knocks in order to reach their goals. Behind the team there has been a master mind, the coach. Mr. Saubert has faced many pre-season difliculties with the team, but he took the material avail- able and whipped it into a team that won a championship. lt has been the work of Coach Saubert to organize plays, drill them into the players: but far more important is the team spirit that he has drilled into the boys. We praise Coach Saubert and his able assistants, Mr. Wolf and Mr. Panella, for producing such a team. The days are over when moral issues are thought so minor that a coach is selected merely on his ability to turn out Winning teams. Preeminent among his qualities is the desire and ability to serve as a moral leader of boys. Athletics in high schools provide a fruitful field for cultivation of a large number of funda- mental virtues. Coach Saubert is outstanding for his ability to develop clean, fair players. Page One Hundred Fifteen

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Norway's strength in the skiing events was overwhelming. Her jumpers had the knack of combining perfect form with the attainment of long distances, and she was undisputed victor in the jumping events. Sven Utterstrom, of Sweden, however, won the iifty kilometer cross-country event. This race is a severe test of a man's resources. There are no paths or roads, and the skier has to climb steep hills and jump over the rocks and many other obstructions that are in his path. Canada succeeded in winning the hockey championship for the third consec- utive time although the American team gave it some very strong competition. Gsrmany and Poland were also represented. but were very little competition for their North American rivals. vvv Development of Character MARGARET MAGNUssoN To the Grecian, Goodness and Truth made Beauty, and he concerned him- self chiefly with noble living. This factor was involved in the Greek system of education. The training of the body occupied as important a place as the train- ing of the mind. Their fine gracious characters were developed by their athletic contests and games. The Romans, who were a practical race of people, finally absorbed the Greek civilization. Yet there remained a difference between the Roman and Greek views on morals. The Greek was concerned with what he felt about his actionsg the Roman was concerned with what his actions would look like to other people and how his actions would reflect back to his own credit or discredit. The last couple of centuries the Olympic games have stimulated the interest in sports as a means of character building. The ideals of athletics are not bone and sinew alone, but such Hne qualities as quickness and skill: courage and manlinessg pluck, energy, and endurance. There has been a large stage of development in recreation from the begin- ning of humanity until the games of the Greeks. There is the savage stage expressed in hunting and games like hide-and-seek. The pastoral stage shows dolls, gardens, and construction through toys. The nomad stage finds expression in adventure, running, and competition, The tribal stage of development is portrayed by team games. A physical expression is found in ninety-live per cent of all our interests. XVe cannot maintain for a long time normal strength of character without a hardy physical basis. This is obtained through play which gives a person mastery of his body. Muscular coordination eliminates the awkwardness and gives grace of movement and beauty of form. Today most of our population is urban, thus Page One Hundred Fourteen

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Mrs. Harrison Thomas. Secretary Educational Committee of The League of Nations Association, New York: Miss Mina MacDonald, Secretary League of Nations Union, Glasgow, Scotland: Mr. Oliver Bell. League of Nations Union. London. England: Mr. J. D. Allen, Vice-Admiral Cretiredl, St. Al- bans, England: Miss I-lenni Forchhemmer. Member of League of Nations, Copenhagen. Denmark: Compton Mackenzie, President of University of Glasgow, Scotland: Monsieur Emmanuel Cbastand. Director of the McCall Mission, Paris: Mr. Stuart Chase. Mr. James Truslow Adams, Dr. Everett Dean Martin, Mr. William Ellery Leonard, Authors: Messrs. Charles and Albert Boni, and Macmillan and Company. Publishers: Mr. B. Morgan, for permission to print the Hauptmann Lecture: Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York: Brown-Robertson Company, New York: Museum of Modern Art. New York: Signor Jose Gorostiza, Secretary of Public Education, Mexico: Department of Commerce, Ponca City, Oklahoma.