Word: geer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fears that swimming from the Weld Boathouse float would be forbidden this spring were dispelled yesterday morning after a conference held in the office of the H. A. A. between Mr. Fred W. Moore '93, graduate treasurer of the H. A. A., and Mr. W. H. Geer, director of physical education at the University...
...failed to get the support of some High School Athletic Associations while in Atlantic City" said Mr. Geer, "largely because some of the leaders failed to appreciate the function of athletics in the school. These men were willing to subordinate the health of pupils to the winning of post-season championshops after the winning of a rational kind of championship in connection with a tournament of games for an athletically related group of schools. I'm in this fight to the end and have planned a campaign which will bring this project before a great many of the educational institutions...
...Bridgewater" said Mr. Geer, "I had an opportunity to sit in at the postponed annual meeting of the Massachusetts High School Athletic Association. I never sat through a meeting where the discussion seemed so pointless. Principals of schools were attempting to formulate a set of uniform eligibility rules for all schools in the state. They failed to recognize the utter impossibility of such a task, for conditions vary too much in different sections of the state. The athletically related group of schools in one district may very well have certain athletic traditions of a desirable nature that are not common...
However stunning may have been the effect of the bombshell which M. Geer hurled into the Atlantic City Convention, there is certainly nothing catclysmic in the reactions it arouses nearer home. To any one who has been associated, even in indirectly, with Mr. Geer, his views on school and college athletics appear so sane and logical that any opposition to them seems to reflect a strangely perverted point of view...
Only within the last few years has the bubble of athletic importance shoed signs of dwindling to proper proportions. Mr. Geer's strength in assisting at this reduction lies in the fact that he has gone to no extremes. He believes thoroughly in the value of the competitive spirit and of inter-institutional games; where he rightly draws the line is at the point where athletics cease to be a means to better standards of physical health, and threaten instead to over shadow and even to undermine the principle of balanced development which is the aim of modern education...