Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-01-25


/ full to them and more annoying to
to others on Sunday.
ATHLETICS FOR ALL.
IDes Moines Register.l
The athletic system at Cornell Coll
iege, Mount Vernon, 10 cited by Presi-
dent William T. Foster. Of Reed Col
| lege, as notable among the colleges OF
! the country for the completeness with
which physical training is distributed
| over the entire institution.
President Foster is decidedly an
| tagonistic to intercollegiate athletics,
| and he believes the success of Cornell
in getting all students onto the play :
grounds TO be in spite OF intercoalegi-
ate games and not because of them.
The criticism which he makes Of the
athletic organization of most schools
in the United States-that dozen
highly trained men take their athletics
in the field while thousands get theirs
in the grand stands recognized by
every observer. But the Reed College
| head Is not satisfied with observing
the situation. He strikes boldly out at
what he believes to be Its cause, tho
rivalry among institutions that has
supplaased the spirit OF play within the
college.
Reed College Is known as the model
school OF America. tt was founded
four years ago at Portland. Ore. with
DR.. Foster as its first executive. and
il represents his ideas of higher educa-
ton TO unique degree. There is no in
tercollegiate athletics at Reed College.
/ hut there is universal athleticism.
President Foster declares that what
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schools have done by artificial stin,uia-
ton is attained easily and naturally at
Reed College.
1t is s. strong indictment that he
draws of the commercialism and the
unsportsmanlike desire TO win at all
costs, which mark intercollegiate ath-
letics. All VIII agree that the purpose
OF college athletics is to benefit the
health OF the whole student group,
and the faculty as well. This result is
attained in only a few colleges among
the thousands in America. The only
question remaining for discussion Is
whether intercollegiate athletics is the
reason for the absence OF true ath-I
letics, whether the Cornell standard
can be achieved turnout the country,
or whether the Reed plan must be,
adopted. E~
TOBACCO HABIT AMONG BOYS.
shenandoah Sentinel-Post-
Fifteen or twenty years ago said
a young business man to the writer.
when / was student In the high
school in Shenandoah. the use of to-
bacco among us boys would not have
been tolerated. Teachers would not
have permitted il. and those were ex-
PEELED whose clothing was polluted
with the smell of tobacco A boy would
have been dealt with severely who I'm
dertook TO smoke cigarettes on the
school premises
Now, the tobacco and cigaret habit
are winke6 at by the parents of some
boys who use tobacco and smoke Gig
arets. Teachers strive not to see the
pupils use it even when 1t is done right
before their eyes in broad day light.
What is the matter? Is the govern
ment in the homes growing looser? Is
the discipline in the school becoming
more lax?
The laws on the use Of tobacco and
cigarets among boys is much stricter
now than it was fifteen or twenty
years ago. It requires that the effects
OF stimulants and narcotics upon the
human system snail be taught In every
school in the state: and studied by all
the pupils old enough to study; and to
those not old enough to study, oral in
struction must be given regularly by
the teacher.
We do not know how many boys in
the Shenandoah schools use tobacco
and cigarets, nor who they are. Com
plants are being made against il by
the boys who do not use it and by the
parents OK even some Of the boys who
use it. They want the schools to as
sist them In restraining their boys
from using tobacco and smoking Gig
arets
The school board should get busy
and cooperate with the superintend-
ent and teachers in stopping Its use in
course Of time by denying school priv
ileges to those who will not quit it.
1t is pretty hard to have to expell
or suspend pupils from the schools:
and it shows a weakness in the school
that does much of it. But there are
cases that can not be reached any
other way; and the persistent use of
tobacco and cigaret smoking Is one of
that class Of cases. Notice should be
served on the parents and the matter
taken up with those addicted to the
use of tobacco: and after a reasonable
time If they do not quit it: the doors
of the school should be closed to them |
until they evidence disposition to re-
form the habit There is nothing to |
gain by permitting school children to |
continue in the wrong without making |
il as hard as possible for them to do |
wrong and as easy as possible for them |
right
1t is not a pleasant thing for the
Sentinel-Post to agitate this question
and to call the attention of the public
to the use of tobacco and cigareti
among school boys in Shenandoah. We
have hesitated to do 50 until they
have brought criticism up
on the schools from people in Shenan-
doah and outside of the city by their |
own misconduct In the use Of tobacco |
and cigarets
We believe the time has come now
to stop the use of tobacco in the |
schools or to stop those who use it |
from going to the school There is
no use to trifle with the matter The
school board should get busy and the
teachers and superintendent should