Word: geer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Society of Directors of Physical Education in Colleges, The National Collegiate Athletic Association, and the Athletic Research Society will meet on successive days at the Georgian Terrace Hotel, Atlanta, beginning on December 27. Major F. W. Moore '93, Graduate Treasurer of the H. A. A. and Mr. W. H. Geer, Director of Physical Education, will be the Harvard representatives at the meetings...
...Geer will address the assembly of Physical Directors on the subject, "Physical Education Administration at Harvard." He plans to divide his time between the selective system of required athletics for Freshmen and the measures taken with men who receive the grade of D in body mechanics. He will explain the working of the elective system and give statistics showing the popularity of the various sports...
...December 29, the final day of the conference, the Physical Research Society will meet. Mr. Geer has been asked to deliver a report on "The Longevity of Athletes", a subject of which he has made a special study. The society will also discuss the question of "Fool Rules," a study of unnecessary and undesirable athletic rules. Dr. J. Moore Soniat of New Orleans will make the principal address on this subject...
...this year's Conference may seem insignificant. But the fertile question of "Faculty Control of Athletics" will make no little argument, and introduced as it will be by President Angell of Yale, its solution will have considerable weight. And another report of general interest will be that of Mr. Geer, on "The Longevity of Athletes". This has always been a cause for dispute between those who believe that athletes build up their bodies and live longer than the ordinary mortal and those who deal in "athletic hearts" and high blood pressure. The study of "Fool Rules" ought to bring...
Major F. W. Moore '93, Graduate Treasurer of the Harvard Athletic Association and Mr. W. H. Geer, Director of Physical Education at the University were appointed as the University delegates to the next meeting of the National Collegiate Athletic Association to be held in Atlanta, Georgia, late in December...