The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1913-12-16
PHYSICAL EDUCATION
SOCIETY CHOOSES HEAD.

meeting Of the Kentucky Physic-
- n6ucxtion. Society was held in the
1DDe Of Mrs Robert l.. Stout, at the
zBt6te University, in Lexington, Satur-
l1ag morning. Routine business was
at<ended to and the following officers
we've elected:
Hsnorary President, Baroness Rose
Posse. president of Posse Normal
School of Gymnastics, Boston, Mass;
President, Mrs. R. l.. Stout, (Grad. N.
III. N. s Co.. Physical Director of
/. Wemea. University of Kentucky;
Vise-President, Lieutenant James
Lindregn, Louisville, (Grad r. G.
Stockholm, Sweden; Secrc Try, Miss
Mary Anna Bean (Grad. n. II. N. S.
Co., Supervisor of Physical Training,
Lexington Public Schools. ~
The members of this society desire
a larger membership. All persons
having diplomas from accredited
schools of gymnastics covering at
least a two years course in the med
5cal theory and practice of gymnas-
tics, will be cordially welcomed.
The following resolutions were
adopted and spread upon the min
utes:
BE 1T resolved, That the term
Physical Culture be Condemned as
cheap and tawdry, and that editors of
newspapers and all other educated
persons be respectfully petitioned to
discontinue the use of the obsolete
term Physical Culture, substituting
therefor the regulation and standard
terms Physical Training or 'Physi-
cal Education, or Gymnastics; this
for the reasons offered by the authors
Dudley & Keller, in their book, 'Ath-
letic> Games for Women and con-
CURED in by all graduate physical
directors, to-wit: 1t would be a good
thing if the private schools would
abolish the use of the term Physical
Culture, which has come to mean
almost anything. There are Physi-
cal Culture systems, restaurants and
furniture 1t is pointed out by he so
ciety that every exercise offered in
"a gymnasium is based upon medical
principles The physical director does
not explain this theory to classes for
the same reason that the physician
can not explain his prescription to
a patient. The graduate physical di-
rector is therefore not a teacher but
a medical expert.
BE ii resolved that we endorse the
sentiments expressed in a recent edi-
torial on modern dancing printed in
the Review Of Reviews and publish
ed in several leading papers, and in
justice to physical educators, the at
tention of the public be drawn to the
fact that modern social dancing, so
called fancy dancing and the ballet
are in. no way related to the classic
dancing Of the gymnasium. Such ar
lists as Isadore Duncan and Miss st.
Denis have done more towards re-
viviRg an art dead for two thousand
years. The classic dance is an ideal
form of exercise for the body and is
as far from all social dancing as the
stars are from the earth. The classic
dance of the ancients was held in
reverence as a fine art on the level
of other fine arts-painting, poetry,
music and sculpturing. Its origin
was sacred and to-day it's theme is re-
ligious. The classic dance is an in
depreciation in rhythmic posture of the
thoughts, inspirations and passions of
the human soul. It has a holiness
a melancholy dignity that lifts it high
above all other form of the Terpsi-
: chorean Art. Many philosophers have