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and careful attention to large groups of young people. As director of athletics a t the State Normal School in Missouri, and in several MiddleWestern high schools where he made remarkable records, his talents became seasoned. Since last year, when our basketball team was in first place, until the last game, when, by a trick of percentages, it dropped into third place, he has been an Illini coach. Edward J. Manley, who has taught swimming to good swimmers and to bad swimmers since 1912, who was a member of the swimming and water polo teams of the Missouri Athletic Club which won the A. A. U. championship, has an enviable record. Never since he has been here have Illinois swimming teams finished below third place in the

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In the Inter-Allied Games overseas, he won in the middle-weight division, and he has defeated some of the best men in the United States in this division since, having been defeated only by Johnny Meyers, world's champion middleweight. He is a skillful and powerful wrestler, and a remarkable teacher. He has produced not only consistently vigorous wrestling teams for the University, b u t has brought wrestling and boxing from the obscurity of specialized activities into the realm of increasingly popular sports. Men of this kind are symbols of a new life a t Illinois, of a higher, more courageous, fuller life; and already their mark is indelibly upon the student body. It is through them t h a t we hear the call of living thousands, and it is this call, as well as the silent voice of the heroic dead, which will be answered in the great one-hundred-acre Recreation Field which will be included in the Stadium.

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every Conference record. Men like Vosberg, one of the best crawl stroke swimmers in the country, and Lichter, who holds the world's record for the sixty-yard plunge, are products of Manley's, and men like M a o Gillivray and Raithel took instructions from him. Manley sees to it t h a t every student in the University knows how to swim and, in addition to these duties, he is director of all Intra-Mural and Inter-Class games. He has developed these contests until last year more than 3,000 students, representing 204 different teams, took part in them. This includes football, soccer, basketball, baseball, swimming, boxing, wrestling, track, tennis and golf. And all this activity has continued in spite of the awkwardness in carrying it out—an awkwardness due to the limited recreation facilities. Arthur J. Schuettner, who directs the men's gymnasium and is coach of gymnastics, deals with the student who needs the parallel bars, the pulleys, the Indian clubs, the horizontal bar and the trapeze. He was supervisor of physical training and athletics in the public schools of Buffalo, New York, and has won many competitions, including the allaround gymnastic and athletic championship of the United States a t St. Louis in 1914. He has developed an astonishingly wide and consistently increasing interest on the part of students in exercise on gymnasium apparatus. Paul H. Prehn, who has made a remarkable record as a wrestler himself, is developing an unprecedented interest in wrestling among students.

'AS A MONUMENT TO PAST AND AN INSPIRATION TO PRESENT AND FUTURE TEAMS: AVERY BRUNDAGE SUBSCRIBES $ 1 0 0 0

Avery Brundage, 'op, three times amateur all around track champion of the United States and a star at the Olympics

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T R E N G T H , speed, agility, stamina, and endurance are not the only qualities acquired on the athletic field, The value of the resourcefulness, loyalty, ability to think quickly, gameness, good sportsmanship, will power and poise learned under the direction of competent coaches cannot be over-emphasized in the development of men, "The dictionary says that culture is ' t h e t r a i n i n g , d e v e l o p m e n t , or

strengthening of the powers i mental or physical.' Two thousand years ago when ancient Greece was the center of civilization, a man to be considered educated had to have a trained body as well as a trained mind, Greek culture was mental and physical and there resulted that glorious and enlightened age of Hellenic supremacy in literature, athletics, civics and art that has never been surpassed, "Some day physical training in its broadest sense will be as much and as important a part of our educational program as mental training. We have the best athletic department in the United States today a t the University of Illinois—we must have the best athletic plant. As a monument to past and an inspiration to present and future teams, I am glad to contribute to the building of the most imposing Stadium in the country."

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