. Purdue debris. ary to layspecial emphasis upon training and coaching freshmen andit is planned to give them as good coaching and instructionas is given varsity teams, while class games and contests aresupervised and encouraged in every way. It is recognizedthat success in athletics, as in everything else, is founded onmoral stamina and mentality even more than on physicalfitness. Breaking training is not alone confined to physi-cal excesses, but the man who gets conditioned in his workis in a very real sense breaking train-ing. The psychology of games and con-tests is no myth, and what a man
. Purdue debris. ary to layspecial emphasis upon training and coaching freshmen andit is planned to give them as good coaching and instructionas is given varsity teams, while class games and contests aresupervised and encouraged in every way. It is recognizedthat success in athletics, as in everything else, is founded onmoral stamina and mentality even more than on physicalfitness. Breaking training is not alone confined to physi-cal excesses, but the man who gets conditioned in his workis in a very real sense breaking train-ing. The psychology of games and con-tests is no myth, and what a manthinks he can do, and will& to do, hedoes. If this sort of character can bedeveloped in intercollegiate athletics,and we believe it can and that no otheris woith while, then the departmentof physical education can do a workthat the University and the countryneeds. This department desiresearnestly and will strive mightily toenable each student to achieve, Afervid mind in a sound body, bothdedicated to ^JL IT \X tl rr i v^ e 1^ ^ -t v 118
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