Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-07-09
EDUCATORS HEAR THAT ArH.
LETIcs ARE DETRIMENTAL
TO STUDIES.
ovERTRAIN FOR GLORY
AT EXPENSE OF LEARNING
Speaker Declares Game a. Now played
is Not Real sport-Education Of
Women in Household Arts Urged -
Bad Cooking Cause Of Many Do
mestie Woes.

Denver, July 9.-The closing day Of
the National Educational Associations
convention opened with meetings in
the departments of art, child study,
normal education, rural, agricultural!
and physical. Notable in the depart
ment of physical training was the con-
sensus of opinion among teachers
against football as an athletic sport,
and a general feeling that sturdy boys
are given preference in physical work
to the detriment of their weaker
brothers.
THE time has come when the glory
of an athletic battlefield is much
more in evidence than the intellectual
and moral achievement in the class
ROOM" said William F. Slocum, pres
ident of Colorado College, Colorado
Springs, in his address before the de-
partment of physical education. There
are at the present time one or two
things which are seriously affecting
the physical training especially in our
colleges and universities, the influence
of which is also felt very directly in
our secondary schools" the speaker
declared. This is the outcome very
largely of the intense competitive spir-
it which has entered into the athletic
sports which are carried on among
American students. This competition
has become so fierce that 1t is center
ing the interests of physical education
in preparing athletes for contests
rather than the development of thor
ough intellectual scientific physical
culture for the larger number 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 it is moi
dominated by a love of sport for it!
own sake. It tends to produce an, alb
normal type of physical development
simply for the purpose of intense com
petition. It does not produce eithe,
mental or physical normal conditions
but rather abnormal. Mentally i
shows the same results as war an,
pugilistic contests. At least this is tn
predominatfng element of football a:
played at the present time on the ath.
letic fields Of the country. This is in.
dicated by the fact that the moment
that the football season is over the
game disappears when one side ha:
Won and another been defeated. The
spirit and conversation growing out O.
this game are similar to that which
one hears after two contending armie!
have met on the battlefield, or two
pugilists have met in a fight"
Misery in Poor Cooking.
"Our cities are filled with miserabl
women, heart-sick men and blighte'
homes, due to lack of instruction TO
girls in the grammar and high schoo
courses in the fundamentals of hom
economies" This was the statemen
made by President Cree T. Work, o
the College Of Industrial Arts, Denton
Tex, in an address at the National Ed
ucation Association convention, today
The speaker. in the address which wa
delivered before the department O
manual training, pleaded for the NOR
general Introduction into the publ
school curriculum of arts and science
related to home interests. Presiden
Work recognized the desirability of vo
cational schools for women, but EN-
phasized the idea that the courses i
such schools should also provide thor
ough practical training in home eco
nomics, because, whatever the, preser
ambitions and occupations of the girl.
they will some day have homes to di
rect.
"Our girls should know the how c
the art of housekeeping and home
making at least fully as well as thel
mothers, and the why good deal bet
i ter" said the speaker.