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Page ninety-two Page ninety-three Gymnasium Group in Action GYMNASIUM rT HE mind is not trained at the expense of the J- body in our college. The faculty, believing that intellectual attainments, to be practical, must be accompanied by physical soundness, have provided a nice balance between scholastic and athletic requirements. Accordingly, at the beginning of the year a physical examination is required of all students, after which members of the freshman and sophomore classes are assigned to regular work in physical education. Two hours a week are required of students in these classes unless they are exempt because of physical inability. Of these two hours, one must be devoted to swimming and the other to gymnasium or sports. Miss Beatrice Marshall, a professionally trained instructor, conducts the gymnasium classes, directs all athletic activities, and coaches the teams. The class drills are scientifically designed to afford exercise for every muscle of the body, as well as to build up physical strength and grace. Consequently, practical studies in posture and walking, including corrective exercises for those who have need of them, come under gymnasium requirements. A well-organized program has been worked out, including military tactics and formations, setting-up exercises and tumbling, and regular apparatus work. The gymnasium is set up for volley-ball, basketball, and baseball, and provided with six vitrolite backstops. The equipment is complete through out, comprising stall bars, traveling and swinging rings, poles and ladders, spring boards, beat boards, and an adequate supply of safety mats to safeguard even our most daring athletes. Besides the wall and ceiling apparatus, our equipment includes wands, dumb bells, and Indian clubs. That an even, healthful temperature may be maintained at all times in the gymnasium, an automatic ventilation system supplies evenly tempered, washed, and warmed air at all times. The final touch of complete and modern equipment is found in the lockers and showers adjoining the gymnasium. Sports class provides for drill in soccer, basketball, volley-ball, baseball, and tennis. Teams were selected in the different classes, and competitive work formed a most important feature of class periods. The technical rules of the game are taught in this division, and the students gain practical experience in score-keeping, time-keeping, and referee work. In addition to this, practical skill in play is developed, and that fine sense of courtesy that finds a testing field in the college gymnasium. The program is varied now and then by the introduction of folk dancing. The entire student body is encouraged to take part in athletics, to come out for the teams, the more easily to acquire that fine, ready sportsmanship, that spirit of fair play, and that genial camaraderie that are found at their best, perhaps, in properly conducted college athletics. A Group in the Pool THE SWIMMING POOL FROM the cool dimness of a long corridor, one comes into a low-ceiled, softly-lighted room the kind of room one might expect to find in some green cavern of the sea. A subdued light sifts through opaque windows, to be reflected from the green water. The antique crabs and lobsters in Chinese red on the walls seem to blink in the half light. The passage under the little bridge by the wall entices one. It is almost a disappointment to discover nothing less modern than lockers and showers on the other side. At the sound of laughter and a ring of anticipation in happy voices, one turns back from the little bridge. The springboard, which until now has escaped notice, bounds at its release from the weight of a diver a high school girl, perhaps, or a city school teacher, who has come for a plunge after her tedious day. Here is a beginner venturing a few strokes near the shallow end of the pool, under the encouraging smile of the instructor, hoping that when summer comes she will be able to compete with her friends. Someone else is striving after a Life Saver's certificate. The course in Life Saving meets once a week, to fulfill the requirements necessary to obtain a senior life saving emblem. To gain this distinction, the student must be able to swim three hundred and sixty yards, to achieve a series of complicated dives and strokes, including the back dive and the running back dive, to break the wrist hold, the front neck hold, and the back neck hold, and to gain merit in a number of other tests. While we wait, an exciting rescue is staged. The Life Saver, about to go into the lockers, hears a cry. In a moment she is running fearlessly no danger of slipping on the rough ceramic, non-skid tiles. She pauses for a moment at the edge of the pool, then dives clear and clean. The carriage is successful, the rescue achieved, the resuscitation exercises skillfully performed, and she is back again with her companions playing surf ball. The balls toss above the water, adding their splash and color to the game. There is no movement of discomfort, for the temperature of the water and the washed air is kept uniform. The water is clear and fresh, changed regularly, and purified at frequent intervals by the violet ray. Perhaps the non-students enjoy their hours at the swimming pool Monday and Saturday afternoons from three to five, and Tuesday and Thursday evenings from seven to nine even more than do the Terrapin Clubs. Whether this be true or not, there is a new glow on their faces, a brighter sparkle in their eyes, as they go gaily back through the cool corridor to take their several ways homeward. The ripples die on the pool. The queer figures on the wall shrink back into the green shadows. The lights go out. There is only a narrow, shimmering track on the pool cast by a street light outside the farthest window. The Tower f 19 3 1
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tower1931046
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Women and Leadership Archives http://www.luc.edu/wla
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Mundelein College Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary
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There are eight total Mundelein College yearbooks: 1931, 1932, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1971, 1972, and 1985.
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Mundelein College Collection
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Reading Room
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Print
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