The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1909-07-10
Too Much Competitive
Spirit in Athletic Sports
-.-GirIs Should Know
Art of Housekeeping
ATTEMPT WILL BE MADE TO
RECONSIDER ACTION RECON-
MENDING SAN FRANCISCO AS
NEXT PLACE OF MEETING.

DENVER, July 9-Football, Mara
thon running and such sports tend
to disable received severe jolt in
the department of physical educa-
ton of the National Educational
Association this morning. The place
of physical education in the field
of hygiene was the subject OF Will
liam Slocum who spoke as follows:
THE time is here when the glory of
athletic battlefield is much more in
evidence than the intellectual and
moral achievement in the class room
said William /. Slocum, President of
Colorado College, Colorado Springs,
Colo, in his address today before
the Department of Physical Educa-
ton of the National Education As
sociation. "There are at the present
time one or two things which are
seriously affecting the physical train
ing especially in our colleges and
universities, the influence of which is
also felt very directly in our sec
ondary schools. the speaker de-
clared. "Tis is the outcome
very largely of the intense competi-
tive spirit which has entered into the
dLQlGIlC SDOItS olC Sai iASA OA&
among American students. This
competition has become so fierce that
it is centering the interests of physical
education in preparing athletes Tor
contests rather than the development
or thorough intellectual scientihc
physical culture for the large num-
Der of young men and women
"The great danger Of the game OF
football as it is at present played be-
tween our American colleges and sec
ondary schools, is that 1t Is not
dominated by love of sport for It's
own sake. 1t tends to produce an
abnormal type of physical develop
ment simply for the purpose OF IN
tense competition. 1t does not pro-
duce neither mental or physlcal
conditions but rather abnormal:
Mentally it shows the same results
as war and pugilistic contests. AT
least this is the predominatlng eie-
ment of football as played at the
nresent time on the athletic helds OF
the country. This is indicated Dy
the fact that the moment that the
foot-ball season is over the game dis
annears when one side has won and
another been defeated. The spirit
and conversation growing out OF
this game are similar to that wh1ch
one hears after two contendlng
armies have met on the battieneiu'
or two pugilists have met IN nsn..
"The escape from these eondltlohs
will come by development OF spoil
for it's own sake, as is the case IN the
English colleges and secondary scnool
and nv inducing practically every
student to have his own sport "h,ch
he learns to love for Its own sake;
IT will come by acquired pnysical
culture on the part of every stuoen'
and nunil who is not forced to be ex-
cused for some special and gooo req
son growing out of mental OF phs-
sical infirmities. .oia
Tn the department of manual tram,
ing Cree Work was the prlncipai
speaker. He said:
"Our cities are full OF mlserapie
women. heart-sick men ana pilsheeu
homes. due to the lack OF instruc,
tion for girls in the grammar anu
high schools courses in the fumua-
mentals of home economies inls
was the statement made by Presiaen'
Cree T. Work, of the College OF IN
dustrial Arts, Denton Texas, IN an
address at the National EducaaIon
Association Convention, today. Inc
sneaker, in the address wnlcn was
delivered before the department OF
manual training, pleaded for the
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