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Caption: Book - History of the University (Nevins)
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WAYS OP EXERCISING 299 with class teams, fraternity teams, literary society and other club teams, and teams informally mustered. The campus offers two score tennis courts, and there is a good golf course. Time was when the University, chiefly through Hindu students, mustered a creditable soccer team. Lacrosse is played, and handball, while any fine day sees a string of cross-country runners lengthening out to the country roads. In this connection it must be said that no student has for many years left without appreciation of the services to the whole institution of George Huff, not merely as an efficient director of athletics, but as a man whose influence upon the moral standards of members of University teams has been of the highest sort. Six years ago Director Huff estimated that not more than one-fourth the students obtained adequate physical exercise through participation in athletics. But this fraction is not discreditable, and it has been increased since. Athletics was long encouraged by the excusing of all members of University teams from military drill, and still is by a connection between class-team managers and the athletic association. In the spring at least, practically every male student is under constant invitation to join some class, club, or other group game; for in spring the vogue of outdoor sports is at its greatest. The winter offers no sports, as it does farther north, for during much of it the University is deep in mud, not snow or ice; and the impulse to enjoy the returning good weather is irresistible. A timehonored and yet spontaneous institution is the "spring celebration" which breaks forth on the first night that appeals to the student imagination as sufficiently balg^gg, and sends an hilarious mob snake-dancing downtowKK< mark the advent of the seasonifeBaseball, too, with its
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