The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-04-07

years TO come Ii Is proposed TO make
radical changes In the relationship OF the
association to the institutions OF learn
ing scattered over the land. This rela-
tionship Is now very close. The presi-
dent OF the organization is DR.. ]. w. Sea-
vers, one of the most widely known OF
the professors at Yale. He will call the
body to order. The treasurer. whose re-
port shows the associat ton TO be In a very
encouraging financial condition. is DR.. G.
f. Edinger of the West Chester State
Normal school. while Secretary Edwin
p Lyon is from the Anderson Normal
School of Gymnastics. The council OF
the associa ton will be present likewise.
This council includes DR.. Edward Hitch
cock. of Amherst; DR.. y. A. Sargent. Of
Harvard: DR.. E. NJ. Hartwell, of the
Boston public schools: DIR. III. 4. Ar
mold, of New Haven. and DR.. Eliza M.
Mosher, of Brooklyn.
AS for the universities interested, they
include nearly all the best known institu-
lions in the country. The new Univers-
ity OF Chicago, the Leland Stanford uni
versity. Yale, Harvard, Princeton ana
Brown are we'll represented. The diff
Guilty in the way OF r prescribed course OF
physical education, TO be uniform
throughout these scattered institutions.
long felt and heretofore almost ire
medlable. is to be overcome by the con
ference by means OF new plan hit upon
by the council. The changes proposed
look toward the establishment or DIS
tricts or sections for local meetings, with
a grand national meeting once every leap
wear. Each section is 10 have head
quarters in some city. where d state
meetings are to be held Boston, New
York. Cincinnati, Chicago. ST. Louis. New
Orleans and San Francisco are proposed
as centers of various sections.
The peakers at the conference viii be
men prominent in the cause OF physical
educa,ian not merely as instructors. but
ss friends OF the cause First, and prob
ably most notable among them all, is
Prof ] W. Seavers. who FOR years has
been unremitting IN his efforts 20 put
scientific physical training in American
Institutions OF learning on footing COM
mensurate with It's Importance. The
doctors success in this ia the more
gratifvin- as for long time the pref
udica against the work was widespread
and deep-rooted. LatteTly, however.
workers in the cause OF scientific physi-
col training have had "a contend with
Misunderstanding arising from excess
in mere college sports and athietics.
These pastimes have been corfounaen
with the training which the association
seeks 70 maintain. greatly 10 the en-
harrassment OF the cause. one OF the
s,bts,ts ~ he considered Will have refer
ercA n this matter OF college sports. No
douht iS entertained OF the establishment
ultimately OF a modus vivendi between
these branches of Undergraduate athletic
activity.
Quite a number Of prominent educators
ara 10 become members OF the assoeia-
ZION They are largely instructors IN
American colleges. and their labor VIII be
in the line OF the organizations new
u,orir a the formations OF sections for
rhvstcsI education. The reports Of the
thrao committees will likewise have an
eycsr.,ouaI interest. one of these Is on
anthropometry and vital statistics an
other deals with the photography or
rbvssraI education. and the third deals
with all matters relaufas 10 ne PfacileAI
size Of physical education. the extension
81 re work new views q physical train
i,v nau apparatus. building. appliances
and the like
A, ,r,,nortant feature % the exercises
an t,a rs~eSanfed or the day following
me oraninr OF the meeting. This viii
ror-lprtSe an exhibition or gymnastlc
work by the schools and sof''~tles n ana
49,. ~aev YORK The exercises wiz IN
$50 rrs..v nearly everything In the line
- s.ts-+tes y,hySical education. and Goz-
- - Young people are - participate.
4,,..~ ,foza educators whose work - rot
ss~a,.t.- IN line with physical training.
ara much interested IN the aeTlng-
Se,h low president Of Columbia. looks
anon ne work 20 be performed BY the
Assembling professors IS Of the first IN
r,o-.arra He has long watched the
',-ov.th a. me associations influence with
s,----.,ths.st- attention. and is particular
~ MARITAL 70 the t4eA OF sections In 81
80 ~ sns country. The late Or. Nc
!osS ~ Princeton was always Al s9vo-
80 ~ plans along the lire % those
vrhfch me association - trying 20 carry
o8t.
The west. too. has responded WIKI
alacrfty % the oveFturss OF this oEgan-
srattvn Surh weil-krowrn educators as
president IL = Gates. CO .AxaAersss