Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-11-20

Hence there are special coacherS All ~
trainers and physicians and other spe-
cialists to whom is granted the man
agement of this phase of training dur
ing the short period any special kind of
athletics is in progress. The principal
coaches, for example, at Harvard, are
business and professional men in Bos-
ton, who give limited and definite
time daily to athletic affairs, and thus
assist in keeping the standard up. and
drawing a fair salary. In all such
cases these specialists are graduates
who made notable records on the ath-
letic field when they We're students.
There is no doubt but that the athletic
spirit runs too high for the educational
benefit of the athletics themselves and
results in injury to their first object as
students, as they are placed on a regi-
men and under a supervision and con-
troll that is remarkably exciting and Sc
we're, as the contest they are to enter
is recognized as the most violent. re-
quiring all the vigor and nerve and
strength they possess. The authorities
in charge of these great institutions
recognize these evils and would like to
eradicate them, but they confess that
with all their authority as officers and
teachers that there are some things in
modern education for which they are
not responsible and for which they can
not entirely determine policies and
plans, even when they are apparently
authorized to legislate and control.
since the public demand and the popu-
lar favor can not be either disregarded
or defeated. Hence, their main object
is regulation and supervision by means
of carefully constituted boards made up
of the faculty. boards of trustees, alum
nj and students, and they report that
better business methods are reached
and that a wiser and more prudent poll
icy can thus be maintained. They con-
clude that there is necessity for athlet-
les in modern education and that the
student body has right to be recog-
nized as reasonable and fair in de-
manding that this need be met. It is
also stated that athletic interest and
absorption is better by far than many
other evils of modern civilization which
surround and infect schools, and that
the moral and mental welfare of an in
dividual is always safer while he is ac-
tive in athletics, because he places him.
self under absolute supervision and
professional direction during the very
period of life when character is being
formed and morals and habits are be-
ing determined"
President Seerley finds that there Is
an evident tendency today for women
to initiate all the phases and types of
education as managed and directed for
men in the more famous schools. This
tendency shows itself in educational
lines for the women students are
crowding into the lecture rooms where
the professors are distinguished men.
they evid@ntIy have The impression
that their education will be more prac-
teal, thorough and complete if their
teachers are these men. Women stu
dents seem to believe that a mans
views are broader, more complete and
more valuable, hence Radcliffe college
at Harvard, and Barnard college at
Columbia are overwhelmed with num-
bers who desire to be thus taught and
trained Even the women's colleges
where all the teachers are women,
more or less 70 'ow the lines mapped
out by the mems colleges as regards
courses of study, methods Of manage
ment and plans Of training. There
is no difference in their laboratories.
There is more differentiation in gym
nasium work and equipment. 1t is un-
iformly accepted that more individual
work is necessary for women than for
men and that team work as in ball
games can never be very successful
with women. In fact, the directors of
gymnasiums uniformly stated that in
ter school contest games among women
are neither desirable nor successful,
as no college team Of women can be
permanent because of their physical
constitution and at the same time have
proper regard for their health or their
future welfare OF games played by
men the following are accepted as suit
able for women provided they do not
try to equal the records made by men,
namely: golf, lawn hockey, basket ball,
lawn tennis, croquet, hand ball, indoor
baseball, ping pong, bowling, skating.
and field sports like putting the shot,
jumping: hop, skip and jump; throw
ing the ball and the discus, hurdlung,
walking, etc. Where the apparatus
used and the records made are more
minor in character than those uniform
ly expected of men,
sss
After presenting the views of some
of the best known of the physical di-
rectors at the great colleges, President
Seerley undertakes t. state tersely tho
requirements of a model gynna SUM.
The differentiation in gymnasiums for
men and women must come largely in
the equipment. Men are more gregar-
ious than women and do not require
as much privacy. A swimming pool
of good size is necessity, there must
be abundance of lockers, etc. Light and
there are many students there must
be provisions for several classes to be
in progress at once Much money he
finds is wasted on over equipment of
gylnnasiuns, since there is a great
change constantly occurring in the
views of the directors. President Seer
ley follows this general comment with
done at all the various colleges which
he visited, tells of the buildings and
equipments, and accompanied his re-
port with photographs and plans show
ing just what is being done. The
report takes up many pages of type !
written copy and is regarded as one
or the most complete and exhaustive !
ever made by anyone in the state on I
this subject.
MarschalI Will Recover.
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