Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-04-11
GYMNASTS GIVE BANQUET
OF CLARK UNIVER-
SITY PRESIDENT AS GUEST.
Function Given in Y. NJ. G. A. As
sembly Room-Addresses by
Prominent Speakers.

Muscular Christianity was toasted at q
| banquet given by the gymnasts in the as
sembly room of the Y. NJ. c. A. building
| last night. DR.. G. Stanley Hall, president
of Clark University, Worcester, Mass, was
! the guest Of the evening, and that was the
keynote of his address About fifty Of the
| gymnasium men attended. Besides the
| toasts. the annual awards of the physical
department were presented to the winners.
| Lieut.. j. w. Crawford, chairman Of the
physical department committee, served as
| POSTMASTER, and in clever speeches intro
duced the speakers of the evening.
President Clark, in beginning his remarks,
said he spoke from the standpoint of the
man advanced in years and he emphasized
the point that the best possible basis for
| brain work in after years is a strong physi-
cal training in early years, citing instances
! by way of Illustration.
The Y. NJ c. A, however, has revived
| the old idea that there can be no best Gull
ture of the soul without culture of the
| body" he said. This was practced by
some of the ancients; but it required the
| Y. NJ. c. A. to bring back the same old
! doctrine, he stated. And, in their way, they
| have brought out the benefits of physical
| culture. Muscle work, he setated, developed
| the brain, because tricks requiring great
! skill and close attention are bound to de-
velop the gray matter of the brain.
| Growth of Gray Matter.
THE brain,' he said was shown by the
| latest experiment to reach about it's maxi
mum size when the child is twelve years
DID, and the gray matter in the brain con-
tinues to grow and develop until the man
| seventy Although he did not mention it
| the contrast of this idea with the Osler
| theory was strongly marked
| This country" he said, Leads the world
| In Christianity and muscular culture, and
| that has been developed by the Y. NJ. C.
| A" He advocated this idea of the coupling
| of Christianity with physical culture. He
| said that there are conclusive proofs that
| Christ was a large welI-built, big-statured
| man and not the weakling some of the ar
| lists have painted him. He thought that
| the two ideas went together.
| Wrestling with the problem of the In
| crease of crime and the lowering of the
| average age of criminals, he said, people
| had found that there were three ways of
meeting the Generalization. First was the
! religious, which,, he thought, is good, but
not reaching the masses A second way
| was through teaching morals and making
appeals to the conscience, and this, he
| thought to be limited. The third and most
important one, was through a development
| of honor. While honor may be perverted
| in some cases, its proper development will
| have great influence in a moral way. In
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letics and sports.
Other Addresses.
Following President Hall, s. H. Greene,
NJ D.. Of the medical staff, spoke of some
| of its troubles. He told of the benefit which
consultation with the staff might do for
members of the association and urged that
| men should seek it's aid and advice in the
exercise to be taken. In the enlarged chest
ana increased lung caDacitv thew in
| terested, he said.
Capt. c. c. Williams of the basket ball
| team told of the trumphs and defeats of
| that organization, stating that the season
total showed that it had won thirteen games
and lost eleven. E. w. Hearne general
secretary, told of the various activities of
the association He spoke of the efforts of
! the colored branch of the association to
raise $4,000, to meet a condition of a gift
of $4,000 by John D. Rockefeller; of the
organization of branch in Howard Uni
George Washington University; of the
meetings for men in street car barns, repair
shops and the navy yard. The future Of
the physical department was pictured by
c. E. Beckett, physical director His spe-
clal aim, at present, is for running track
at 2lst and B streets, near the association
buildings, where the association already has
some tennins courts.
List of Awards.
Following the toasts the following awards
were made: Association emblem to ]. Con-
rad and Elmer Wright, wrestlers; stars.
denoting another year Of service as a class
leader, to H. S. Neale, R. H. Roberts, H.
Barber, ]. Pauls, ]. Baulsr, j. Moran and
R. w. B. Roe. William Haight, the mem
Der of the basket ball team who broke his
shoulder in one of the games was pre-
scented with S42 the proceeds of an exhibit
ton benefit game Of basket ball in the as
sociation gymnasium, and to each of the
members of the basket ball team-C. G..
Williams, r. c. Fowler, w. Hafght, G. c..
McClain, r. Coleman, F. B. Blair, NJ F.
Ludwig, F. Jones and j. H. Smith-a hand
some watch fob was presented.