Caption: Book - Overview and State of the University (1913)
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20 TIIK i Mvi itsrn 01 n mois the people in all parte of the State and no char i bat l*<-n made for it. We must now o to the north Bid of tl. mis t 3 see bhe new Men Gymnasium. On the j u will Dotice bhe President's hou e, erect d in 1896, * 1 I am sure you will be very welcome, and * will ji I v. Ik through the green houe , Hen- plant- and fl. re propogated tor use about the grounds and buildings and in study. This gymnasium is, like the arn ry adja< n1 100x150 foot on the ground. On its firsl fl< > are the r offices of the Director, the examination room, dr wing rooms for the 'Varsity and visiting b ims, the Faculty dressing room, and the locker room, with provision for twelve hundred metal lockers, and a swimming p I 2( 75 feet, and 8 feet deep. All freshman students undergo physical examination, and prescribed physical exercise is required through t h e first year. Every care is t a k e n to correct physical defects, or u n f o r t u n a t e tendencies, and to train the body so it may carry the severe work of the University. W strive to develop well rounded men and women with powers harmoniously developed, and we believe in work and sport rationally balanced. Here is the trophy room for bhe care of football.- tnd baseballs and bats and all manner of appliances used in intercollegiate contests which have now and again stirred the University crowd to the very depths. That beautiful sterling silver loving cup was presented by the business men of Champaign to the 'Varsity baseball beam when they came home from the east last, year after winning five games OUt Of Six they played. They lost bo Harvard b\ a score of two runs to one on a bit of hard luck, and bv re.i son of a split finger, but they had bhe Princeton, Yale, W e s t P o i n t , Pennsylvania, and Michigan scalps,—rather aristocratic ones surely, a t their belt when they came hack to the I all timber. And all bhe mom I of the team
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