The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1912-11-21
STATE NORMAL schooL EXTENSION

basketball for the remainder of the
term. During the winter work on
the school basketball squad and the
remainder are engaged in gymnastic
exercises. Ice sports are encouraged
for all boys who are interested. In
the spring the men who are inter-
ested in baseball are given training
on the baseball squad from which the
school team is. formed. All other
men are given training in track
athletics or in tennis. The baseball
team plays a schedule of games with
other schools The track team is
given an opportunity to compete in
athletic meets with other schools and
also in competition among themselves.
In tennis there is the annual school
tournament and an effort is made to
develop a tennis team which can en-
gage in competition with other
schools.
Competition in all lines of athletics
is provided for the purpose of furnish
ing incentive for individual excellence
and to give training n the social, ethic-
al and moral qualities inherent in all
properly conducted athletics. "
Girls Athletics +,
During the fall term the women may
elect basketball work, field hockey,
baseball, tennis and walking. This
work is preliminary to the spring
work in the same lines, when class
competition for the banner and basket
ball shield is engaged in. A series Of
games consisting of regular schedule
in which each class meets each other
class is played. This serves as a
climax for the year in athletic train
ing. During the cold weather of the
school year the indoor work engaged
in consists of class evolutions, gym
nastic dancing and games.
Outside athletic composition for,
women, with the exception of tennis
is not permitted. For them: the evils
peculiar to competition for women
OulWelSh the gOOd results
Objects of Athletics ....<:.-.
The above described physical exer-
cises for men and women are en-
ployed to give health and strength
and to develop the students muscular
ly and nervously. This work is sup
plemented and supported by instruc-
ton in personal hygiene including
talks on questions of sex and other
personal matters. Que, tons of SAM
tation and simple first aid are also
discussed. The object is to give stud
ents a working knowledge of them
selves and of means of avoiding pre-
ventable evil conditions of living.
Since Normal students are train
ing for the profession of teaching
each one should know something of
the method of conducting physical ex-
ercises. Special lectures are given
the Junior class in this particular
during the winter term. These stud
ents have had two years of practical
work as a foundation and during their
senior year they will be the practice
teachers in preparation for their
great responsibility as teachers in
the schools of the state the following
year. Many of them are called upon
each year to conduct the physical .edu-
cation in the Model school in connec-
ton with the Normal, and many more
are asked to conduct the same work
in the school which employs them as
teachers.
It is endeavored by this method to
educate students as much as may be
in the knowledge of their own physi-
cal we'll being and also to teach them
how to assist In like manner those
over whom they are placed as guides
and instructors in the serious bust
ness of building American citizenship
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