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student home with a lifetime recreation, - with a favorite sport which will
insure for him activity and freedom in his meow.

Physical education is a fundamental method of education, - a method which
proceeds by means of or through predominantly physical activities. Physical
eduoation is much broader than simply a program to improve health. It is a
fundamental technic whose ultimate value may be to improve, besides health,
the qualities of courage, initiative, perseverance, and self-control; sympathy,
information end understandings; for the central nervous system should be as
active when the children play as when they study, - and neurograms should be
created and modified as rapidly and as permanently on the playground as ahywhere
in school life.

Man and animals, as depicted in carving, soulpture, drawings and literature,
are active creatures. From earliest times motor skill and human movements had
art and religious, utilitarian end military values. Paul said, "I will run a
race of patience for the prize, which is the high calling of Christ Jesus." And
Daniel said, “I will not defile myself with the King's meat."

We learn by doing. Therefore, competitive athletigs is intensive training.
It gives the boy so much pain to lose and so much joy to win that he will
harness himself with inhibitions so that he may attain the coveted goal, which
is victory. A boy will say "No" a thousand times to temptation so that he may
say "Yes" once to vietory and to a championship.

The Kansas team leaves tomorrow for Columbia, Missouri, where they play the
Missouri Tigers in Brewer Fieldhouse. In the Kansas dressing room those five
boys who start the game will be told that they are the only five boys in the
United States who can wear Kansas’ name across their chests in the starting
battle. Words of confidence and caution will be given them. Their teaumates,
huddled together in that small dressing room, will feel the sense of belonging

that only boys on a team may possess in an athletic contest. The spirit of
oneness, the esprit de corps, the morale of this Jayhawker basketball team will