The daily sentinel. [volume] (Grand Junction, Colo.) 1893-current, 1912-02-29

I II olNaIs EDIta / ON-
The term physical education"
means just what it implies-the edu-
cation of the physical powers through
the coordination of the muscles with
the mind. As John Locke, the most
influential of English philosophers,
once said, "A sound mind in a sound
body" and we agree that soundness
OF brain depends largely upon sound
ness of body.
The aim of physical education in
our schools is not so much to cure
certain types of deformities, such as
scoliosis, or lateral curvature of the
spine, talipes planus, or fiat foot, the
unsightly prominence of the shoulder
blades, etc, although il can be done
by medical gymnastics; but the ex-
ercises are for the prevention of the
above diseases. -.
Our school children need the fol-
lowing forms of exercise that are, to
a certain degree, possible within the
boundaries OF the schools:
/. Hygienic exercises; exercises
that will accelerate heart and lung
action and the action of the digestive
organs. Such exercises stimulate
growth and the molecular changes
and aid in the maintenance of health.
.. Corrective exercises; exercises
that will counterfeit the injurious in
fuence of long sitting during school
life upon the growth and posture OF
the pupils.
8. Co-ordinative exercises; eXer-
cises that will promote coordination
Of movements and an easy and erect
carriage of the body.
4. Recreative exercises; exercises
that will create eheerfulness of the
mind. The play life of our children
Is very meager, from the games OF
fighting Indians and train robbers
down to the more mild game of tag
the number could be counted on the
fingers of one hand, and the lack OF
organized games is conspicuous by
its absence. A public playground Is
sadly needed here, where our chill
dren could be taught to play under
proper supervision.
At the regular High School faculty
meeting Tuesday afternoon, after dis
cussing plans for the High School re-
ception to be given Friday evening,
the time OF the meeting was taken
up with normal college work. The
subject was, Methods of Teaching
Latin" Miss Helen NJ. Decker led
the discussion. Among the good
points made by Miss Decker were the
following: Teaching the pupils the
similarity between the English and
the Latin, so that they do not feel
that Latin is a dead language; that
compound words have the same sig
nificance in English as in Latin; de-
voting some time each day to COM
hitting vocabularies with drills from
English into Latin and Latin into
English; instead of telling pupils
their mistakes in written work, hav-
ing them find and correct their own
mistakes.
Miss Hazel "wassthe next speak
er. She brought out several import
ant features. She asks her pupils to
look the sentences over carefully and
note the subject, predicate, object
and other members of the sentences
with their modifiers; she teaches
them the relations of Latin to other
/ languages, especially the French and
Spanish; she impresses them with the
importance of thoroughness and ac-
curacy in the beginning classes Miss
Ella has successful vocabulary match
es similar to the old-fashioned spell
ing matches. This creates great in
one lntIH vi
words with the same root. She be-.
lieves, as Miss Decker does, in max
ing Latin living subject.
Miss Julia Taylor, the efficient
head of the department in Latin,
closed the discussion, She spoke out
OF a large fund of many years eX-
perience. She introduced her sub
ject with quotation. knowledge
of form, mastery of syntax and con-
troll of vocabulary are the sharpened
tools with which we work" Miss
Taylor spoke of the new method she
has introduced into the Caesar class
this year, namely; how to study TAX
ing the sentences in their natural or
der. At the close OF the recitation
she has often read the advance les
son over rapidly in free transla-
ton. The excellent English used by
the students in examinations shows
the wisdom of this method. Miss
| Taylor insists upon translation into
good idiomatic English She gives
her class little Latin prose each
day. The result of her work is graf
flying, j. II. ALLEN,
Superintendent
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