RADIO PROGRAM
November 25, 1937

PHYSICAL EDUCATION FOR HEALTH

"THE ELIXIR OF HOMECOMING"
Dr. Forrest C. Alle

Homecoming --- coming home, with all of its fulsome expectancies and durable
satisfactions, is flush upon us. Our forefathers enjoyed turkey and cranberries
in Puritanical ovens, but in this region our native American offspring prefer
Jayhawks and Tigers served on an outdoor gridiron on this great ingathering day.
The great maternal heart of alma mater annually welcomes her children back to the
scenes of the best four years of their lives. True, she has temporsrily banished
from her academic Garden of Eden atop of Mt. Oread these graduate youngsters whom
she forced out into the world to develop themselves. But they alwzys want to come
back, armoured with eternal youth, protesting “the fallacy that the world is old",
Their everlasting dream is to secure a competence that will enable them to return
to Lawrence in the foothills of Mt. Oread and there spend the rest of their exis-
tence.

Ye oldtimers returming for this festive Homecoming are desirous of feeling
again the old thrill, or at least catching a glimpse of that fading glory and en-
thusiasm that was once yours when you trod the paths of the cammus which you regard
with particular affection.

This Homecoming is always a mental elixir. It is indelibly hooked up with
those four years of undergraduate study. The late President Hyde, of Bowdoin Col-
lege, once outlined for us the aims of the American srts college. May I repeat them
for you:

"To be at hom in all lands ené@ sges, to count Nature a familiar acquain-
tance, and Art an intimate friend; to eszin . stendard for the apvreciation
of other men's work snd the criticism of your own; to carry the keys of
the world's library in your pocket, snd feel its resources behind you in
whatever task you undertake; to mke hosts of friends amone the men of
your own .ge who are to be leaders in all walks of life; to lose yourself
in generous enthusiasms and coopernte with others for common ends; to
leam renncrs from students who sre gentlemen, and form charecter under
profcssors who are Christians, this is the offer of the college for the
best four years of your life,"

Just ten years ago Aucustus 0. Thomis, president of the World Federntion of
the Education Associc tion, saw in the development of the sporting bloods of people
the element of breaking down of national jealousies end racial hetreds. He said,
in part:

"Sporting blood is the rost common blood of the human race snd should be
utilized in bringing about internationel unmierstanédines wd in relieving
national jealousies and race lv.itreds. . .We seldom heve trouble with a
good sportsman. It is 2 trait worth cultivating. Tre sporting clement

is closely allied to the social side of lift. We need to cultivate cach
other in cleering away misunderstandings. Misunderstsendings cuase hatreds
and hatreds cause war. War, therefore, becores en intellectual problem.
Our schools can do more then eny other influenee to break dow the wall

of prejudice. The sporting sense should be developed. It is the wooden
horse by means of which we cm break into the walled city of huran hatreds.
Tt will striv the msk of deceit from the face of racisl and netional
jealousies."

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