Albuquerque citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1907-1909, 1909-07-09
CLOSING SESSION
THIS EVENING
Convention OF Educators Is Fin
iShing UP Business TO-DAY
In Readiness to End
Meeting and Ad-
journ Tonight.

Denver. July 9.-Football, mara
thon running and such sports as tend
to disable youth received rough
handling in the department of ply
sical ecucation of the National Edu-
cstional association this morning.
Ira b. Fee, deputy superintendent of
schools of Wyoming made the prin-
cipal attack. He admitted that there
is an element OF virtue in football but
that it is generally too rough
William +. Sutton. of the Univer-
sity of Texas, started the ball rolling
by asking that "evil sports" be placed
under the ban by the association. In
the discussion that followed it became
evident that the trend of opinion was
for athletics that will enable the
weaker boy to partake as well as his
more muscular brother.
The final meeting was held in nine
departments today and the conclud-
ing session of the general body will
be held tonight
Too Much Shors,
The time has come when the glory
of the athletic battlefield Is much
more in evidence than the intellectual
and moral achievement in the class
room" said William f. Slocu1 pres
ident of colorado college. Nakhaao
Springs. COL. in his address today be-
fore the department of Physical Ed
ucation of the National Educational
association There are at the pres
ent time one or two things which are
seriously affecting the physical train
ing especially In our colleges and uni
yersities. the influence of which is
also felt very directly in our second
9ry schools, the speaker declared.
This is the outcome very largely of
the intense competitive spirit which
has entered into athletic sports which
are carried among American students.
This competition has become so fierce
that it is centering the interests Of
physical education in preparing ath-
letes for contests rather than the de-
velopment Of thorough intellectual
scientific physical culture for the
larger number of men and women.
Football an Example.
The great danger of the game Of
football as it is at present played be-
tween our American colleges, and
secondary schools is that it is not
dominated by love of sport for its
own sake. II tends TO produce an abb
normal type Of physical development
simply for the purpose of intense
competition 1t does not produce
neither mental or physical normal
conditions. but rather abnormal. Men
tally II shows the same results as war
and puglistic contests At least this
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hall as played at the present time on
the athletic fields of the country. This
is indicated BY the fact that the mo-
ment that the football season is over
the game disappears when one side
has won and onother been defeated.
The spirit and conversation growing
out of this game are similar to that
which one hears after two contend
ing armies have met on the battlefield,
or two pugilists have met in a fight.
"The escape from these conditions
will come to the development of
sport for it's own sake, as Is the case
in English colleges ana secondary
schools, and including practically
every student to have his own sport
which he learns to love for its own
sake. II will also come by acquired
physical culture on the part of every
student and pupil who IS not forced
10 be excused for some special and
good reason growing out OF mental
'or physical nhrmitics."
Should Teach the Girls.
our cities are filled with mis-
cradle women, heart-siCk men. and
blighted homes. due 10 lack OF i'll
struction for girls in the grammar
and high school courses in the fun
damentals OF home economies" This
was the statement made by President
Cree r. Work. of the College of In
dustrial Arts. Denton. Texas in an adj
dress at the National Educational as
sociation convention. today The
speaker. in the address which was de-
livered before the department Of man
ual training, pleaded for the more
general Introduction into the public
school curriculum Of arts and sciences
related to home interests Presi-
dent Work recognized the desiraDility
OF vocational schools for women, but
the idea that the courses iu such
schools should also provide thorough
practical training in home economies,
because. whatever the present ambit-
ions and occupations Of the girls. they
will someday have homes to direct
"Our girls should know the how
Of the art OF housekeeping and home