Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1907-07-10
HEAR TALKS ON
CARE OF BODY
PHYSICAL CULTURISTS HOLD
MEETING
Wisconsin Teacher Suggests That
Physiology and Athletics Should
Be Taught as Closely
Related Subjects

The department of physical training of
the n. q. A. met in Oak hail., Fraternal
Brotherhood building, yesterday morning,
for general discussion of physical train
ing in the schools
q. H. Arnold, president of the depart
ment, was unable to be present at the
was elected president pro tenn.
training expert from Chicago, occupied
the time WHICH was to have been DEVOTED s q
was to be regretted that the physical
training department did not have the
Auditorium for its use. and declared the
small number. in attendance proved a
lamentable lack of interest in care of the
human body.
Then followed a paper by w. w. Hast
ings, instructor in anthropometry and
physical education at the international
Y. M. c. A. training school at Springfield,
Mass.
Mr.. Hastings subject was 'How Can
Physical Training Be the Instrument for
Making Theoretical Teaching of School
Physiology of Practical Value for School
Life?'
Mr.. Hastings said in part:
w. w. Hastings Address
ITO the physical director it has been
given to strengthen the bodies of our
children; to him also should be given to
teach physiology, to explain what their
bodies are, how ley grow, and why GER
tain experiences and habits of life are
wholesome. This is essential to both phys
iology and physical education from the
point of view of interest in both, for by
the correlation Of the two each takes on
new life and value.
training is carried on the physical direct
or trains the teachers in the exercises to
be given, by teaching classes In their
teachers in the best methods of present.
ing physiology to the children in connec-
ton with their physical exercises. Illus
trations should be taken from the daily
phenomena occurring in the practice OF
athletics and gymnastics.
Secure Interest in Health
Physical training can become the in
strument for making theoretical teaching
of school physiology of practical value for
First BY change in the supervision
of the teaching of physiology by chang.
ing the responsibility for the teaching Of
the subject from the many individual
teachers and placing 1t on the physical
director.
physiology concrete and personal, by
man body but Of the child's own body:
Third By teaching both function
tanned by normal function In growth and
development; that is to say, by laying
emphasis upon the physiology or growth:
"Fourth. BY teaching the relation of
sleep, wholesome food, regular habits and
normal muscular activity to perfect de,
velopment, by combining the study or
personal hygiene with that of physiology.
by giving both the motive for living in
wholesome way and the means for per-
sonal attainment of health and vigor, at
one and the same time, and thus securing
a permanent interest in health as some-
thing desirable"
At the conclusion of Mr. Hastings ad-
dress an interesting discussion followed.
teacher from Wisconsin said that phys
iology and athletics should be taught to-
gether, and that no person, who did not
know how to exercise should be allowed
to teach others, for often much harm was
done to the child.
A paper on 1.-THE Rational Teaching OF
Hygiene in Public Schools" which was 10
have been given by w. F. Snow or Lee
land Stanford university, was not read,
as Mr.. Snow had not arrived at tine 1,e
meeting. The last paper on the program ~
was also dispensed with because Ciar tx
w. Hetherington, who was 20 de ny t IN
letics," was also absent; =. -.
The department Is scheduled 70 mees
in the same hall Thursday morning az II
o'clock to consider. the topic, ,,aai 1'rein-
ton of Grade Teachers to Physical Tram
ing"