Part 18 (1/2)

The problee is intensified by the fact that freshmen come to their chosen institutions with a variety of experience in physical training, but unfortunately this experience is, too often, either inadequate or ineffective The natural physical training of the earlier age periods produces whatever neuro-muscular development, whatever neuro-muscular coordination, whatever neuro-rowth, develop hu wisely planned with reference to infancy, childhood, and early youth would include types of exercises, play, games, and sports, that would perfect the neuro-muscular and other functions far h the natural unsupervised and undirected physical training of those early age periods either in city or in rural communities The force of modern habits of life has led to the destruction of those natural habits of work, play, and recreation that gave a proportion of our forebears a fairly co the plastic or formative periods of life

As a result, rowths and with poorly developed, poorly trained, or poorly controlled neuro-muscular equipment Some of these matriculates are physically weak They lack alertness; their response is slow Others are aard and rowth is objectively--height and weight--nore Departh special provisionsa belated neuro- to such cases It often happens that successful training along these lines is possible only through individual instruction of a h siht to have been a part of his experience in early childhood

=Individual needs of students augment problem of department of physical education=

For the sae Depart finds it necessary to concern itself with individual students who need special attention directed to specified organs or groups of organs whose training or care could have been accomplished ordinarily far better at an earlier period These students present probleional weakness

=Supervision of athletics and recreation adds further to its proble finds also a significant opportunity and an urgent duty in the fact that various types of physical exercise are intimately associated with social, ethical, and ives the same opportunity for the development of a social spirit and personal ethical standards as do play, games, and sports of children and adolescents

Unsupervised, these activities degenerate and bring unmoral practices and an anti-social spirit in their wake

Because of these opportunities and obligations, College Departrae athletics, and assu role in the direction of recreational activities of college students It remains true, however, that these influences of supervised play and athletics should operate long before the individual reaches college age

The intense interest of college students in athletic competitions, united with the opportunity which athletics offer for social and character training, has decided a nu over to the Depart This preparation for the supreical test must be built upon a foundation of safe and sound health There is no anization for these athletic and recreational activities

=Organization of Departe departments that cover this field in whole or in part are known by various na; of Physical Education; of Physical Culture; of Hygiene; of Physiology and Physical Education; of Hygiene and Physical Education; of Physical Training and Athletics, and so on

An analysis of these college departments shows that they all concern theh they differ in their lines of greater ees the departh related departments in other institutions

The activities of such departe divisions, each one of which has its logical subdivisions One of these large divisions may be called the division of health examination It has to do with the health examination of the individual student and with the health advice that is based on and consequent to such examination The second division has to do with health instruction covering the subjectThe third division covers directed experiences in right living and the formation of health habits, and includes the special activities noted above

We often refer to the first division noted above as the division of medical inspection, physical exaiene, physiology, biology, or bacteriology; and to the third as gyanized play, recreation, athletics, or narrowly as physical training

The pri, then, is to furnish the student such infor experiences as will lead hient policy of personal health control and an intelligent policy of community health control The collateral and special objects of physical training vary with the individual student under the influence of his previous training and his present and future life plans

The Collegiate Depart is primarily concerned, therefore, with the acquisition and conservation of human health--mental, , the college ations more successfully; he should be better able to protect himself from, and better able to avoid, injury; he should lose less time on account of injury, poor health, and sickness; he should get well more rapidly when he is sick; he should be better able to recover his health and strength after injury or illness; and he should therefore give to society a fuller, happier, and more useful life

Such a department is concerned secondarily with (_a_) those special defects of earlier physical training that bring to college, students in need of neuro-anic develop, and (_c_) with the conditioning and special training of students for athletic coical deht of the above state may be summarized as follows:

I The funda is the acquisition and conservation of vigorous, enduring health, the suan of the hu vary in their needs for e stresses of life A the more important of these special objects are:

(1) General, nore periods

(2) Neuro-muscular development, coordination, and control

Accoanic (anatomical and functional) development

Optimum period in childhood and youth

(4) Social, ethical, and

Objects more easily secured in childhood and youth

(5) Preparation for so, athletic competition, police or fire service,period in late youth and early maturity Must depend, however, on the effects of earlier physical training