The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1912-02-06

a very important educational force
is the Teachers Vacation Association
ms organization holds a chautauona
camp on tAe BaguIo NILS. wnere i
also the summer capital OF the Phil
lppines. The teachers 20 there AMI
camp out for several weeks. during
which time they have classes Of varf-
Gus kinds. Among the branches stud
lea are lace making. embroidery.
Spanish and Philippine history. and
the science Of education. They have
lectures and other entertainments
They hold conferences. and discuss
their work in the schools. Next year
II Is expected that men Of note from
the United States will come TO lecture
at mat conference. In 1911 the camp
was attended by more than 200 super
lntendents and teachers.
The Growth OF Athletics.
In connection with this vacation
camp are extensive athletic grounds.
There are tennis courts. hasehau
diamonds and golf links. The ummer
school at Manila is similarly
and at the normal school there are five
baseball teams, three tennis courts
and sixty girls in the basketball clubs.
Athletics is now popular in all the
common schools. In the baseball
tournaments Of last year 1900 games
were played by $50 teams, and the
people came from far and wide 10 see
them. Every chOOl now has its own
baseball team, and the teams OF the
various provinces come together and
compete. Indeed, baseball is almost
as much a national game IN the Phil
lpplnes as it is in the United States.
It is played by the soldiers. and it is
they who have taught the Filipinos.
The bureau of education Is now
working out a plan to introduce or
gained athletics among all the stu
dents coming under its control. II Will
organize a Public School Athletic
league which will make a study Of
the physical needs OF the students
and minister to them. Public play
grounds Will be opened up and gym
naSticS made a part of every school
course. AS it is now physical training
is carried on in many of the schools.
}, The popularity Of athletics is to be
seen everywhere. Manila has an anna
teur athletic federation of which the
governor is president. There is a bas-
ketball leaSue, and tneI" a., It
clubs and polo clubs. The governor is
a crack polo player. Now and then
the city has a carnival. and at the LIST
one 500 men were registered as anna
, teur athletes.
, This athletic work is not confined
to the FiIpinOS. The 1901 Ote- .4oN
have a baseball team and other say
t age tribes are taking up sports. All
! this is in striking contrast with me
l conditions When we took possession
: of the Philippines. At that time there
were practically no athletics, and the
better classes had a sort Of contempt
| for physical exercises.
! Our New University.
There were several colleges at
Manila when we took hold Of the is
t lands, and each had a long list OF
studies. They were mostly connected
with the classics d church history.
but as to practical education along
. modern lines, that was unknown.
G While ! was in Manila l visited the
University OF ST. Thomas. which was
: founded about ten years before our
! Pilgrim fathers landed on Plymouth
Rock, and also the ColleEe 4 St.
u Joseph, which was established by
{ the Jesuits in 1901. and at that time
+ endowed by the King OF Spain with
. three profesSorshipS Of 5000 each.
u Both of these institutions hay" been
OF but little value to- us as far az
, civilizing the islands was concerned.
Some Of their graduates become
in 1910, and q college of law has just
: been organized as an outgroWth OF
the law work given under the auspices
z of the Y. NJ. G.. A. Members OF the
Philippine commission and judges Of
g the Supreme Court are teaching II
that college. There is also a school q
- fine arts affiliated with the university
and his had 100 students last year
The university will have Il course o!
y four years and it will in time he one
Of the chief institutions OF its kind
= teachers, but the real workers among
the FilipiuoS were those VINO mac
: been educated outside.
= It will be different with the Uni
. the establishment OF which was passed
:, fa. -.---4egt. / Manila in i4DS
This provides fnr al up-to-datc UNI
=, vars;ty with colleges Of arts, science
m medicine, Law and engineering hi
:. school is alreadv we'll under way ans
plans for a university building ar
- heinz prepared. Some OF the COLLEGE
- ho-tc already hoc0 0iZof 7
- medical school was organized in 1910
and has already had a n1C'cr 0