The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-03-17
OUTSIDE THE CURRICULUM
q SUBJECT OFTHE LECTURE BY WAL- TER CAMP LAST NIGHT.

Delivered in North Sheffield HaIl-llr
 Camp Treats Athletics as New EIc. | ment im a College Course-D Dwells on
 inc vniue of Organizations.
 Walter Camp, Yale's noted athletic
 advisor, delivered a lecture in North
 Sheffield hall last evening on the sub-
 ject "Outside of Curriculum" The lec-
 ture was one in the Sheffield course and
 was quite largely attended. MT. Camp
 spoke in part as follows:
 | Professor Searle of the Harvard ob-
 servatory once made the statement that
 astronomers, as a rule, do not know the
 cancellations by sight any better than
 do other persons. That it is their habit
 and duty to observe and calculate the
 movement of a particular star, and
 hence they do not trouble themselves
 with the mythical groupings. A similar explanation might be offered as to what is sometimes commented upon as the lack of recognition given to matters out
 side the curriculum by those who are most intimately associated with the
 educational departments of a univer- Eity. To calculate with precision, and to observe most carefully the course and
 direction of affairs in their own par
 tcular branch, so occupies them as to
 make them quite unobservant of, and
 not likely to trouble themselves with the
 mythical grouping of these students of
 theirs. As it is not the astronomer, but
 |, l.., h. to1, pfpn nafir fa
 interest in the big and little dippers. so
 must it lie in the fact that I am dis
 tinctly layman that l trespess on your
 time in talking of the mythical group
 ing of affairs in what, for lack of a
 better term, l have called outside the curriculum.
 I shall devote what may seem an un- usual proportion of the time to the af- fairs that would come under the head of athletics, because they are at present more before the public eye than the other incidentals to college course, but a failure to dwell at length upon glee clubs, junior promenades, the so ciety system, and the newspaper and literary work, means not that these are of small importance, but that you as a body are more familiar with the general run of these affairs, and they need not and do nto involve so much discussion or outside interest.
 The curriculum of Yale university provides for the instruction of pupils in various branches of philosophy, the arts, law, medicine and theology. These pu- pills vary in age from sixteen to fifty, the average in the undergraduate de- partments, which are by all odds the largest, being, probably close to twenty Thus it may safely be averred, the bulk of the men in the university are in the most essentially formative period of their lives. In making a division of their day, one might probably, with safety say, that, if we allow eight hours for sleep, the other sixteen would be di- vided into eight hours for study and eight hours for other pursuits. In other words, one-half under the curriculum proper is, probably, a fairly liberal al- lowance. And it should be distinctly | understood that such division is by no | means outside the design of the orig | nal3 charter: "A collegiate school l wherein youth may be instructed in the | arts and sciences, who through the | blessing of Almighty God may be fitted For publck employment both in church md civil state.
 It seems almost out of place that I should undertake to speak to such body as this, many of you expert edu- 'ators upon problems with which from ong study you are all so thoroughly but my apology must lie in he fact, that for nearly twenty years
 have seen the under side of these ath- etc questions-Where there is no ath md plaster-just the bare beams Col ege men will, perhaps, talk more un- 'eservedly to me than they have to you ell me more of their troubles; their de- tires; their real ends If we want men # any age to take pills and when we 'egin to talk duty they know it means 'ills-we must sugarcoat them. Fully and dumb bell calesthen- cs appeal to those of us who have 'roWn older-had, perhaps, touch of lVer-but when you try 10 fost them l pon the good healthy youth, you find, hat unless there is something bebnd hem, he isn't very enthusiastic, and his rogress is proportionally slight. d ave son myself and I remember ome years ago, when he was a boy of we, l thought I would exhibit my overs as a teacher. In the summer | fternoons I proceeded in the old-f fash oned way to teach him his alphabet. ou who are many Of you, quite fa- lilar with the modern methods of the dvanced normal training schools. have
 right to smile at me. But I fancied lat good deal of the latter-day de- elopment was only fad, so I went bout 1t in my own way. I don't think lat my progress, or his was phe- In the fall I sent him to a rammar school, and there a demure tile woman of not much over twenty ught him, and forty others, more in
 day than I could in a month, and I 'und him reading Beechnut or any, ling else that came in his way, ex- aiming to me the attributes of solids = luids, carbon, and don't know what. Id the only revenge I can think of yainst the school girl who does so silly what I might have struggled over r year is to say: Wait until he is teen, and then I'll teach him foot ll."
 You readily believe that teaching ethods are changing. want you to
 ieve that other methods, athletic ethods and the like, are as rapidly anginp q 6 are tbe p,a+bods of 4as, l