Bisbee daily review., 1911-05-27

Parents must cooDerate heartily and constantly with the school to safe guard and to systematize the hours for study: to limit the time given to sooial recreation; and to refuse to join the company Of those who in these later days are saying that the main purposes of schools and col leges are no longer learning, but the ass Ociations got there. If the parents will not hold up to the child a high standard of faithful work in the school, the hey or girl will not do
 it for himself and the teacher can not do it. The scholarly spirit then is
 the product of parents and other
 adults first, then of teachers, and
 finally of the efforts or the pupil himself. It is possible even in
 new community, and among people themselves not highly educated, t1 produce a spirit of culture and to increase this, so that in later years the town shall be a nursery of in-
 tellectual leadership.
 Athletics in the High School.
 Athletics is one of the normal de- yelopments of school life. The boy from IA to 21 needs healthy vigor. ous outdoor exercise not only for health. but to identify the individual boy with the group and also to ob-
 scure to his mind and imagination
 important physical changes, the re-
 current consciousness of which may
 lead to vicious indulgences. And a
 fully equipped school wifi have a
 compentent physical director, posted
 not only in the science of the games.
 but also in the hygiene of young
 manhood. But in these days in our
 athletics we are often getting some
 of the very results we want to
 avoid. We have highly speciaiizeo
 sports to which boys give an excess
 of time and more of thought: every
 boy is encouraged to become a star,
 10 get his name in the papers; teams
 are sent a thousand miles to com
 pete with scores of other teams. In-
 stead of being identified with his
 group and of being taught the vir-
 tues of sacrifice for the common
 veal, the boys personal vanity is
 stimulated at an age when this is
 most detrimental, for the boy never
 knows more CT is more arrogant
 than in the years from 14 to 21 or
 22. Sometimes the whole town IS excited over the play of it's high
 school team or the teams of rival
 high schools, and the whole per- spective Of school work is distorted; physical training of an student gives place to the development of teams. In nothing now, l believe, is
 straight thinking of parents and Of
 school officers more requis = than
 in the emphasis laid by many adults and high school students on team athletics. For athletics themselves. conditions present in many cities are not promising; for the greater the number of students trained in normal athletics and general physical development, the more teams may be found in the school itself, the better the first team of the school and the better the spirit of the whole school In this connection might say that ! regard military | drill as one of the best means yet | devised for required physical cui- ture throughout the year, the exer- C'ses themselves being valuable, and subiection to discipline and promo | ton for superior conduct and service | being of large moral benefit. At the
 same time the youth becomes better | fitted for the military defense of | his country should occasion arise.
 | Mcral Culture in the High School. 4 word about the m 1rals of the l school and the c0mmunity's rela- | ton to them Wherever young peo- Ule frequently assemble in large | numbers special questions of morals arise, and in these the schools must have the confidence and constant l service Of parents and others iuter, | ested in right conduct. Whatever he | does or does not do in athletics or | in his class-wCrk, the student in | high school or college too often ] identifies himself with the moral | ideals of the crowd His sense Of | homer is not higher than the common | sense; he loses moral independence the greatest loss a man can suffer. | Few boys or girls are able tC ] stand the sheer at an attempt to | pursue a higher standard of morals | than that of the crowd, yet no one | offers higher respect for loyal ad- terence to high principles than the | very students who smile at the act | itself. Every boy or girl has an ad | miration-sometimes sneaking the hero in war, athletics, or morals | and has little use for the trimmer. | have seen young men in school i secure the hearty recognition of their mates up to the point where they | yielded some principle for larger | popularity and then lose this con hdence and popularity. The judg- ments of young people in the mass g clearer than what one is often | ready to believe and their penalty is often ruthless.
 One thing, then, Is especially need fui-that the parent encourage the boy or girl to moral independence,
 to following the right if others seem not to and if it hurts-and few things hurt with students more than separation from their mates. But other things equal, l. e., if the
 oy IS friendly and seif-sacrihcing