Word: health
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...
...comes down to this" he concluded, "it is the function of High School athletic authorities to safeguard the health of students to their care. We can't do this by dispatching teams all over the country for intersectional contests, nor can we do it by sanctioning post-season games. If we can't have idealism and its attending benefits in High SchSool athletics, I'd like to know where we can have...
...annual meeting of the Harvard Teachers' Association to be held at the University today, "The Health of Youth" will be the general topic under discussion. The meeting, which is open to the public, will convene this morning at 9 o'clock for their morning session in Sanders Theatre...
Professor C. W. Hetherington of New York University will open the meeting with a discussion on "The Relation of Physical Education to Other Phases of Education," Dr. C. H. Keene, director of the Bureau of Health Education in Harrisburg, Pa., will follow with a talk on "A State Program in Education for Health." "Physical Training in the Schools" will be the subject of an address by Mr. C. Ferguson, and Mr. N. W. Fradd, instructor in the Department of Physical Education at Harvard will conclude "Posture, Body Mechanics, and Health...
...Roger Irving Lee '02, formerly Professor of Hygiene in the University will begin the program of speeches after the luncheon with a talk on "What can be done for Health through the Teaching of Hygiene." President Ada L. Comstock of Radcliffe College, will speak next on "Health and College, Life." Mr. W. J. Bingham '16, former University track coach, will close to program of speeches with a talk on "Athletics in Schools and Colleges...