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and the large size of the classes; while the girls lack the advantage that comes from special open air exercises. In the case of young men, there is a tendency, where there is not a gymnasium, to devote the chief attention to those forms of athletic sport which are engaged in by the few while the many simply look on; and to guard against carrying this tendency to an extreme, and to provide systematic training for every student, is the aim of the University management.
While competent training and instruction is provided for all who care to enter the competition for places upon University teams, and the exercise is in every way beneficial to those who avail themselves of it, it is not that best adapted for the general student body, even if the general student body cared to engage in it. To meet the needs of all, there is provided during the first two years of the University course, what may be called a regular course in general athletic exercises, involving the use of gymnasium apparatus during those portions of the year when indoor work is necessary, and ending with open-air training in the spring. The director in this department, Rev. H. W. Cowan, has a national reputation and has in two years brought this department to a high state of efficiency. Independent of the department of physical culture there is an athletic association composed of and officered by students and members of the Faculty, incorporated, and controlling all public contests in which members of the University take part. Under its management are the football, baseball, tennis, rowing and general field sports; and to its efforts are owing the fine athletic field and grand stand now the property of the University, and the general interest in attention to physical culture as a feature of college training which resulted in the creation of a department of physical culture.
While as stated, indoor and field training is required of all, the amount, particularly of the first, is necessarily limited, and must be limited still further as the membership of the University increases, until a capacious gymnasium is secured, as it is hoped that it may be at an early day.
For lack of a gymnasium, the one room now devoted to physical training can be used only on alternate days by boys classes and girls classes respectively, and is in use by other University classes at certain hours of those days. As the girls' classes are smaller, the disadvantage is not so great in their case, and the instructor, Mrs. M. P. Clark, accomplishes creditable results with the means at her disposal. What is needed is a broadening of the work along lines already laid down, and while the entering student may feel assured that his physical welfare will not be neglected, a gymnasium and a specially enclosed athletic field are urgently needed to secure the best results for the health and physical well being of a student body which is rapidly increasing beyond the capacity of every building except those most recently erected.
Our Graduates Abroad.
THE HARVARD COLONY.
One of the indexes of the quality of the work done at a young institution like ours is the standing accorded its graduates in older institutions. No institution in America has higher requirements than Harvard, and our graduates seem instinctively to have turned thither to test themselves by the oldest and highest standard accessible. Graduates of the University of Kansas, provided they are not deficient in German and French, are ranked as Seniors at Harvard. It is fair to say that this difference is recognized as due chiefly to our lower standard for entrance. The rating of a college by the Havard committee depends as much on the record made at Havard by the graduates of the college as on its curriculum. The first Kansas University graduate to enter at Harvard was W. H. Carruth, who took his A.M. there in 1889, and Ph.D. in 1893. Since then the following students have taken a Harvard A.B.: S.C.Brewster, Neil C. Brooks, Wm.Hill (also A.M.), Fred Liddeke,