The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-20
X. q. VIII Require Every Stu
dent To Take Work.
Hamilton System May ReVOlu-
tiOnize All Athletics.

Lawrence, Kan, oct. 2O.-Every
man and woman student of the Uni
versity of Kansas must take regular
physical training five times a week
and men students fit for military ser
vice must take compulsory military
training. The university senate
adopted the foregoing ruling at a
meeting Wednesday. 1t will go into
effect October %, on which day the
university schedule will be set a half
hour earlier to clear away all class
and laboratory work by O'Clock in
the afternoon, when drill and eXer-
else work for the whole university VIII
begin each day. The university Whls-
tie will blow a rising alarm an hour
earlier than at present and every stu
dent boarding house in Lawrence has
been directed to have breakfast an
hour earlier than has been customary
for years.
The ruling to compel every student
to take definite, supervised exercise
an hour a day, five days a week, or
regulation army work is the most
sweeping order made at the University
of Kansas in many years. 1t probably
will change the whole trend of stu
dent life and of intercollegiate attn
letics. Each student will have to sub
init to a medical examination by com
petent physicians and must take the
exercise. prescribed for his individual
needs, be that exercise military drill,
football, handball, medicine ball bas-
ketball, swimming, hockey track,
cross country walks or hikes, light cal
isthenics, or any combination the ply
steal development specialists deem
best for each individual case.
Help Upper CIassmcn.
At present only freshmen and soph-
omOre students are compelled to take
physical development work. That is
a usual custom among colleges. W. o.
Hamilton, director OF athletics at the
university. points out that junior ana
senior students not infrequently break
down from overwork, but that such
breakdowns among freshmen ana
sophomores who are hard students
rarely occur. because they are com
PEELED to take exercise. Prof essor
Hamilton headed the committee that
drafted the compulsory physical de-
velopment and military training plans
adopted by the university senate. He
is endeavoring to extend the ruling to
include all faculty members.
DIN Templin. dean of the college,
started the movement that LED TO the
new order at X. u. The faculty gen
orally long has been dissatisfied with
the student attitude toward athletics,
the attitude that supported system
looking largely to the training OF
winning intercollegiate football, base
H.
paid little heed to the need of closer
and broader physical training for all
students. The need for a higher state
of physical development and health
among all Americans, particularly
among college students. led to the
university smashing the tradition that
has surrounded college athletics many
years.
New Athletic Ideals.
We've wanted to maks such a
change for years." said Professor
Hamilton, but sentiment was so
strong against it we were powerless.
There is hardly a university athletic
director or coach who hasn't advo-
Gated it for years. but the students
were out of our reach. After they
finished their first two years, we
couldn't touch them and if they took
part in physical exercise of any kind
it was entirely voluntary.
Secretary Baker criticized the uni
versities and colleges for developing
the strong men, the fellows already
physically fit. and in a sense his criti-
cism was just. In a sense it was I'M
fair, too, for there has been wide,
powerful sentiment among students
and the public, not among faculty
members generally, that maintained
that demand for winning teams"