The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-07-10
HOUSE KEEPING AND
.FOOTBALLDISCUSSED
Teachers Are Told That Girls
Should Be Taught Art of
Home Making
PedagOgne Decries Athletics and
Compares Play With War
and PugiIism

DENVER. July s.-with a final round
OF department meetings. round table
gatherings, directors conferences
topped off with a monster mass meet
( ing in the Auditorium. the National
education association came TO a close
tonight
DIR. Henry B. Favin, NJ. D.. OF Chi
cargo. president OF the Chicago NUM-
cipal voters league. was the principal
speaker tonight His subject was
should the Public School be the Bull
wark OF Public HEALTH" and was OF
intense interest because OF the atten-
/ ton given school hygiene and manual
training during the convention
Frank Chapman Sharp. professor OF
\ philosophy OF the University OF Wis
consin, gave an illustration, from a
/ Wisconsin school. of an experiment In
question, successful.
! Study at home was discussed by Miss
Mary A. Cunningham of the grade
I teachers association of st. Paul. Mimi.
before the afternoon session OF the
i round-table conference. In this she
urged the women present to make all
possible use OF home study for the
child as well as for themselves. She
outlined a course OF study which might
| be tried as an experiment. The ses-
sion closed with the election OF Of
acers.
The question OF meeting place for
next year occasiOned some further dis
cussion during the afternoon, but it
was the general opinion among those
\ in authority that the executive COM
mittee would not decide finally upon
city until the next meeting in
October.
HOME ECONOMICS FAVORED
Our cities are filled with miserable
women, heart sick men, and blighted
| homes, due to a lack of instruction for
/ girls in the grammar and high school
courses in the fundamentals of home
| economies" This was the statement
made by President Cree T. Work OF the
College OF Industrial Arts. Denton,
Texas. in an address at the conven-
ton q
He said: Our girls should know the
how of the art OF house keeping and
home making at least fully as we'll as
their mothers, and the why a good
deal better" said the speaker. The
/ financial problems OF the home and
household accounts must be studied. A
practical acquaintance with the prob
/ lens of house keeping adds to the free
/ dom and comfort OF women and girls.
and also prepares them for taking their
part in safeguarding the home against
| the impositions Of a constituencies
commercial world"
Football, marathon running and such
| sports as tend to disable the American
youth received a rough jolt in the
/ department of physical education in
the convention today.
The place OF physical education in
the field OF hygienics was the subject
If GNf@N-
orado college. Colorado Springs, Colo.
He spoke in part as follows:
There are at the present time or two
things which seriously affecting the physical
training, especially in our colleges and universi-
ties the influence OF which is also felt very
directly IN our secondary schools. This Is the
outcome very largely OF the intense competitive
spirit which has entered into the athletic sports
which are carried among American students.
This competition has become so fierce that II Is
centering the interests OF physical education in
development OF thorough intellectual scientific
physical culture for the larger number OF young
men and women
FOOTBALL Is ABNORMAL
The great danger Of the game Of football
as Il is at present played between our Ameri-
can colleges and secondary schools Is that II is
not dominated by love OF sport for its own
sake. IL tends TO produce an abnormal type
of physical development simply for the purpose
| OF intense competition 1t does not produce
either mental or physical normal conditions.
same results as and pugilistic contests
At least this is the predominating element 81
football as played at the present time on the
athletic fields Of the country. This in indicated
by the fact that the moment that the football
season Is the game disappears. when one
side has won and another been defeated. The
spirit and conversation growing out Of this
/ game similar to that which one hears
after two cOntending armies have met on the
| battlefield. or two pugfsts have met In fight.
The escape from these conditions will come
\ BY the development OF sport for its own sake
[ nd hr iOduc
have his own sport, which he learns to love for
| its sake.