April & May 1921

crhe INSTITUTE I MONTHLY r Athletics Number APRIL & MAY 192J Published By The West Virginia Collegiate Institute Institute, West Virsdnia. p=::E:..aI!r;)~___ . ~~ THE WEST VIRGINlA ~ COLLEGIATE INSTITUTE ~ The Institute Monthly Entered as second-class matter Jan 2 . ' uary 9. 1914, at the post-office at Institute, West Vir- Nine Miles from guru a, under the act of March 3, 1879. Charleston, West Virginia Vol. XIII APRIL & MAY 1921 Number 6-7 ONE OF THE LEADING SCHOOLS IN THE UNITED STATES FOR THE EDUCATION Devoted to the Interests of The West Virginia Collegiate Institute Twenty-five Cents the Scholastic Year. OF COLORED YOUTH Five Cents Per Copy Courses-College, Normal, Academic, Commercial, Music, ~t::==::::======= Agriculture, Domestic Arts, Mechanical Trades, Smith-Hughes Teacher-Training in Home Economics. ~ CONTENTS College graduates receive the Degree of Bachelor of Arts PA~ or Bachelor of Science. Editorials 2 Normal graduates are granted first-grade certificates to The Function of Athletics 2 teach in West Virginia without examination. Athletics and Democracy 4 Graduates of the academic department are admitted to the The Movies 5 best universities. Our Progress in Athletics Athletics; Debating; Christian Societies; healthful surround- 6 Letters from Alumni ings; fine dormitories; low expenses; a competent faculty. 10 Institute's First Football Team 12 For Information, Address Football . John W. Davis, President 14 Basketball Institute, West Yirginia 16 Interclass Basketball 16 Iniercolleeiate Basketball 20 State Board of Control State Board of Education Campus News add Notes 26 George M. Ford, President ILLUSTRATIONS E. B. Stephenson, President F. N. Sycafoose J. Walter Barnes, Treasurer George S. Laidley INSTITUTE'S FIRST FOOTBALL TEAM 13 E. W. Oglebay DANDRIDGE ("BUTCH") BROWN James S. Lakin 15 W. C. Cook VARSITY BASKETBALL TEAM Frank H. Kincheloe, Secretary L. W. Burns 19 EDWARD DICKERSON H. M. Gore 24 J. F. Marsh, Secretary GRAND-STAND AND GATE 27 T~E INTER-CLASS BASKETBALL CHAMPIONS (1921) 28 AdvisorV Council to the ;---- State Board of Education EDITORIAL STAFF S. H. Guss D. A. LANE,JR. W. W. Sanders, President C. E. MITCHELL,BUSINESSMANAGER. Frank H. Jackson Address all J. W. Robinson __ Communications to "THE INSTITUTEMONTHLY",Institute, West Virginia • THE INSTITUTE MONTHLY 3 The Institute Monthly 11 building progran is held to be of little less importance than classroom Entered as second-class matter, January 29, 1914. at the post-office at Institute, West Vir- I and laboratory programs. In line with the same plan, good men and g inia, under the act of March 3, 1879. good women who realize that no good training can begin too soon are urging measures that will make athletic training obligatory in public Vol. XIII APRIL & MAY 1921 Nos. 6-7 schools. It is a shameful indictment against the intelligence of any people that a ruthless and implacable war had to bring it face to face with its physical weakness. In our judgment the causes of war are few and most of the wars of mankind have been uncalled for, but if the last bloo~y orgy has a:vakened the national conscience with respect to the physical regeneration of the men and women of America, then the men and women of tomorrow will not damn their forebears nor will the EDITORIALS poppies of Flanders' Fields have been crimsoned in vain by the blood of American heroes. At Collegiate Institute athletics were rudimentary for years and It took the stern requirements of the great The Function were permitted with the hope that they might add to the physical fitness World War to call attention to the physical deca- of the student. With no organized system of development or manage- of Athletics dence of American manhood. It follows with- . ment, baseball and football assumed, in a few years, dignified propor- out question that the physical decadence of tions, and the interest aroused in the student body, combined with the American womanhood has not only kept pace with but has exceeded physical benefits accruing to those engaged in the games, justified the that of American manhood. The disclosures of draft boards, and the management of the school in installing a definite athletic program. more recent ones of community workers and sociological investigators, When it is recalled that in addition to body-building; the athletics of have aroused the national conscience on account of the appalling con- the school have made her name known throughout the United States ditions. there is small wonder that her friends, patrons, student body, alumni: The reaction has been a national impulse to counteract this evil, and faculty ate proud of the school's excellence in all fields of athletics -for physical decadence in individual or nation is an evil. attempted. With no gymnasium, and until very recent years, no reg- The great schools of the United States, for a score of years previ- ular coach, the school has produced a Hughes of all-American football ous to the Great War, recognizing the truthfulness of the ancient dictum, fame, a Bartlett, a Holland and a Brown of creditable mention, and "a healthy mind in a healthy body", encouraged and finally required a goodly band of supermen who have carried the Old Gold and Black some form of athletics as an integral part of each able-bodied student's to victory on many a hard-fought field. curriculum. Be it said to the credit of such a step, that the draft boards The various contests have developed a spirit of fairness in games found the American college student most fit physically for the game of and this spirit is found in all collegiate activities. The number of stu~ war. The flower of American manhood and womanhood is seen best in dents whom the love of athletics has attracted to the school has done the young men and women who are flooding the colleges and universi- rnuch to add to her fame. Criticism is often made that schools "carry ties of the country. It has been demonstrated repeatedly that these men athletics too far", but safe and sound regulations, in which scholarship and women after they have finished their courses, attack life's problems anp, personality are the determining elements, are being rapidly enforced with vim and system which are but a continuation of the methods of here. Glory and an increase in the size of the student body may result the classroom, laboratory and athletic field. from victory-in athletic ~ort. but the greatest satisfaction that a school Schools are now expected to build not only character and intellect, n a people can. deri:e from such games is that, throughout the ath- but sound, healthy bodies, receptacles from which a great character ard f ? ~bc scheme, an intelligent band of youthful Amencans IS rounding into a great intellect may properly function.. Secondary schools have t a~perfect physical development that makes for the perpetuity of a fallen in line with this program, and today, m these schools, the body- natIOn. THE INSTITUTE MONTHLY 4 THE INSTITUTE MONTHLY 5 We are publishing below an editorial clipped question. Intercollegiate compe- races, and we accordingly grant to tition offers one of these opportuni- Athletics and from The Lantern, the schooIorgan 0f th e Ohi10 them equal rights in representing Democracy State University. ties. Our Northern universities the institution which they attend. give the same chance to all comers It is refreshing and inspiring to learn that such sentiment~ as. ~re When two universities meet, it expressed in this editorial are the principles that the great un~versltles in molding a varsity team; the color ought to be with this understand- of a man's skin is not looked upon of the country are teaching to the future leaders of th.e natIOn.. We ing. It may be chance for one of as a qualifying point. He is rated take hope in the thought that by such outspoken declaratIOns of fairness them to cast off for the moment and the courageous stand for the principles involved, the slogan of "a on his ability as an athlete and a any inherent territorial preju- fair fight and no favors, and may the best man win" wi1l be in vogue sportsman. The doors of our edu- dices."-Ohio State Lantern. cational institutions are open to all throughout the land. -------- The editorial follows: The On December thirty-first last, the Athletic Committee inau- If the colleges of our nation fail and that it will never fait to con- Movies gurated moving picture shows in Hazelwood Auditorium to view things from a broad point sider interoollegiate events open to for students and townspeople, the proceeds to be used fo; of view, what can one expect of all races. athletics at Institute. Some difficulty was met at first because of defec- that part of the world which has It is interesting to note how the tive ~lms and a machine which seem to want "its own way". A new never had the 0 p p 0 r tun i t y to editorial writer of the Cornell Sun machme was purchased, however, and a series of the best pictures broaden out and learn the princi- looks at the matter. What he has available were procured, and the attendance at the'shows each Satur- ples of that great art of.being able to say on the subject follows: day evening has justified the undertaking. Paramount and Universal to cast aside personal feelings in "Weare accustomed to thinking stars have been brought to Institute week after week and have thus behalf of the bigger things of life? that the Civil War is over, and contributed to the pleasure of the student body and the increase of our The news that Harvard and Vir- then we read of such occurrences at~letic fund.

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