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PHYSICAL EDUCATION• • • Besides training many students for teachingand coaching positions, the physical educationprogram has as its purpose the regulation of facilitiesfor affording every student-man or womanadequateexercise.Ted Bank, head football coach, is also thenominal head of the men's Department of PhysicalEducalion. To Percy Clapp, head of the inlramuralsports program, he has delegated the directionof many maneuvers of the department. Direct­. q women's physical education is L. Janette Wirt.(!;ompulsory during the freshman and sophomoreyears, phy sical education offers everythmgfrom Danish gymnastics and folk dancing forwomen, o 9olf and boxing for men. With thesepla facishould not be a dull boy."Ted Ba.nkSOUTHERN BRANCH• • • Students and faculty at the Southern Branchwere faced in the fall of 1934 with what theythought would be o difficult task-finding a newman to fill the vacancy created by the untimelydeath of beloved Dean John R. Dyer. The manchosen was John R. Nichols.Students who transfer from the SouthernBranch, to the University proper, now comment:"Dean Nichols has gained respect and admtration;capable cheerful, and obliging, he hasassumed his many responsibilities and fulfilledthem all."This year's enrollment at the Branch was about900. The institution's steady growth has givenimpetus to a drive for a full four-year curriculum.John R . Nichols28 •