SIGNIFICANCE IN
A SHIFT AT K, U.?

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‘New 4-Year Course to Give
High School Contacts.

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Physical Education Degree
Offered Under Phog Allen.

AVAILABLE TO FRESHMEN

“No Snap,” Those Who Know
. Requirements, Warn.

Change Lifts Hampering Re-
strictions “on the Hill.”

By E. B. CHAPMAN

Lawrence, May 20.—Equip a cas-
ual observer in this “Athens of
Kansas” for a preview of the spring
state editorial golf tournament with
the magic spectacles of imagination;
give him poetic license clad in
overalls and ready for rough work,
and he may see the University of
Kansas inching its way toward the
softball field. 4

There really is no occasion for
alarm. The university isn’t leaving
its culture behind for such dirty
handed, ‘perspiring, hell-roaring rec-
reation. Mercy no! The Athens
of Kansas is taking along its tomes
and .test. tubes, its Greek and Latin,
its ponderance of prerequisites as
compared to electives and every-
thing which makes a. university
scholarly in such a dreadful degree.

Recognizes New Conditions.

What the big school on the hill
actually is doing is recognizing that
the new leisure this generation has
found is. not going to be used ex-
clusively in the superior activities
which cultivate the intellect. Much
of the leisure is going to be used
in play which involves physical
exercise,

 

to recommend it to some persons
in the K. U. group. Many of the
larger educational institutions have
such courses,

So while the decision to establish
a four-year coaching course at the
university may not be revolutionary,
it is of wide interest. What it means
is that the student with a bent for
athletics and a flair for pedagogy
will have a chance to have four
years of the course he desires in-|
stead of being required to spend
most of his time studying some-,
thing else to get a little of what |
he wants.

Not to Be a “Snap” Course.

It would be a@ serious error for)
the prospective student to. decide |
the new course is to be a “snap.” It!
will be difficult. The high school '
athletic who has been weak in,
everything except athletes will find |
it impossible to make the required |
grades, those familiar with the re-
quirements say.

For all the advantages gained for |
candidates for the degree of bach-|
elor of science in physica] education, |
such old enemies as English and |
history and economics, to say noth- |
ing about other terror-inspiring sub- |
jects, are to be met and mastered. ;
The university trained high school .
coach four years hence may be able }
to tell the editor of the county seat |
newspaper something that will help
the editorial golf game. But it]

well educated person, which probably |
is as it should be.

Even a casual observer armed with
@ special dispensation doesn’t men- |
tion K. U. and athletics and Phog
Allen without mentioning football.
The function of the four-year course
in physical education will be to
train men to coach and instruct, in
high schools.

The high schools are the bushes |
upon which the good football play-
ers grow. Kansas State, with its |
four-year coaching course has en-
joyed a much closer contact with
the high schools of the state than
has the university under the con-
ditions which have prevailed in the]
past. That feature may receive the
football significance it is desired to
give it. .
Rounds Out Athletic Department.

Whatever. emotions the change