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coordinate their physical and men
tal reactions. They learn to think
while in action and to act aecorrL
ingly. Then too, we must always
take into consideration the moral
of the student body. That “Ivah!
Hall! Kali! ’ ’ spirit raaJces the stu
dents happy, contented and glad
to follow through with all of the
other routine connected with their
Alma Mater.
The ancient Greeks built a fam
ous memorial called the statue of
Wingless Victory. Which implied
that victory could never leave
Greece, because being without
wings it could not fly away. Wei
must work, hope and strive for the
day to soon come when victory will
once more alight on our fair cam
pus and perhaps take up its abode
there permanently. When that
illustrious and deilightful day
arrives a change will come over
those fortunate students who hap
pens td be enrolled here. Their
happy smile will become infectious,
their bubbling enthiisiasm will be
come contagious oven the “hiber
nating alumni” will bestir them
selves to renwed efforts on behalf
of their Alma Mater. They will be
come invigorated an.d re.]uvinated!
Even our Alma Mater herself wlio
has had her light hidden under «
bushel so long will appear as a
city on a hill. Pjveryone will know
that Raleigh is the lionK'toM'iV of
the St. Augustine’s “Horses.”
In the past six years I have had
many letters from the old gradu
ates and the general trend is that
St. Augustine’s is letting iis down
And 1 at once thought, “How can
loyal alumni say such tilings when
during the same time St. Augus
tine’ has been accredited by the
Southerni As.sociation of Colleges.
But on reading further I found
that tlie alumnus feels that St.
Augustine’s is neglecting one of
her most potent instruments, the
one tliat makes the first impress
ion, namely, her extra-curricular
activities. A few victories on tiie
gridiron over formidable opposL
tion, would be worth more than
ten-thousand dollars worth of ad
vertising. Of course victor^' here at
St Aug. has been and will continue
to be only secondary. Playing the
game) fairly, squarely, according to
the rules and according to Ameri
can traditions of true sportsman
ship and fair play will always
mean more. I agreed heartily with
Grantland Rice when he said,
“When the one great scorer comes
to write against your name, he
will not write you won or lost
but how you played the game.”
Athletics in an institution of
learning is not an end within itself
but it is a most important means
to an end. The end is to furnish
a liealthy habitation for a healthy
mind. Without a sound boiy to do
its work surely the mind cannot
do what nature intended it to do.
It is true, however that certain
minds iworporated in crippled
bodies ha\e risen to remarkable)
lieights in the various fields of hu
man activity, but it was not be
cause of thosel deformities, but in
spite of them. Perhaps there is
notliing so detrimental to a healthy
body—not even the use of stim
ulants — than excessive sedentajy
life. When a young man is bent on
winning scholastic honors he un
consciously falls into excess. The
natural results follow. Good rich
red blood is denied that part and
they become starved and son de*.
generation sets in within the en
tire body. It is then that we behold
the terrible spectacle of a power
ful int^U'eet unable to do the most
ordinary* work because of a pain