The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-05-31

the opinion that boys should go to col
lege to study and to play ball, if they
are TO reap the full benefits of the
course.
The effect of proper physical train
ing according to one of the highest
authorities on hygeiene is TO increase
the capacity of the lungs and the
breathing power, to strengthen the
heart and the circulation, to invigor-
ate the brain and the nerve-centres,
to improve digestion and nutrition, to
make the muscles more powerful,
more responsive to the will and their
capacity for endurance greater, and
to lessen the amount of adipose
tissue The brain through which
courses the energizing current of rich,
pure, healthy blood can do more and
better work than another fed by
sluggish stream clogged with the
waste materials that only exercise can
throw off. And the benefits of this
training are not physical only, but
moral as well. 1t is the school in
which self-discipline is most effective
ly taught, in which courage, Sclf-re-
lance, force Of WILL promptness of
decision and action and the ability to
give and take without anger or malice
are all fostered. 1t makes for tenn
perance also. We have the words of
the great apostle to the Gentiles for
It when He says: Every man that
striveth for the mastery is temperate
in all things The experience of every
college president confirms this state
mont. 1t is generally accepted that
athletics is the most powerful and eff
fective agency for keeping under con-
troll large bodies of students.
1.-THE aim of this University is to
train men-not one-sided men, but
well-rounded mentor the honor,
support and protection of the State
and for its own lasting glory. Such
men for examples as our own Ernest
Graves cold Pot) who graduates at
West Point No. in his class, a star
of the first magnitude as we'll on both
diamond and gridiron and in the opin-
ion of the superintendent the best all
round man that the academy has
turned out in the ten years of his ser
vice there. And this can not be done
without the athletic feature,
1T may be a mere fancy, but the
architectural style of the building it
seems to me is most appropriate.
While very handsome it is very sim
pie. as BELTS a people whose motto
is 'esse guam videri. 1t is a square
building and in that respect | trust
symbolical. 1t stands firm and strong
'four-square to all the winds of
heaven.I And so / hope will ever stand
the athletic association of the UniVer-
sity of North Carolina to the athletic
world-straight and true, firm and
strong, four square against all tempta-
lions to achieve success by trickery or
deceit, remembering that defeat with
honor is worth a thousand victories
that are besmriched. The General
Athletic Association, which is essen
TALLY the student body is the chief
maker of college opinion. May this
beautiful building of theirs be to them
as a temple of honor from which shall
emanate such influences that no man
guilty of dishonorahIe conduct either
on the athletic field or in the class
room can continue to live within its
shadow In such a contamination
would the beautiful character in
whose honor il has been erected be
indeed fifty commemorated.
Debate on Railroad Rates.
The debate in the Gerard Hall to-
night was upon the most interesting
question now before the American
people The query was Resolved,
that Congress should confer on the
Interstate Commerce Commission
full power to regulate railway traffic
rates (subject to a review by a Court
of Transportation" -
The Phi Society maintained the af-
firmative and it's speakers were j. S.
Kerr. of Sampson, and j. A. Parker,
of Harnett The Di. Society main
tanned the negative and their speaker
were W. l.. Mann, Of Alamance, and
V. L. Stephenson.
Mr.. Kerr for the Affirmative.
Mr.. ]. S. Kerr. first speaker for the
affirmative, said that the question re-
a discussion