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...first they make no radical objection, except to the names of athletic instructors being put in the catalogue, assigning as a reason that they are liable to dismissal at any time. The second they would amend so that professional instructors may be appointed subject to the approval of the Director of Physical Education, or of a committee having such matters in charge. Moreover, they seem to be heartily in favor of professional trainers subject to proper supervision. They...
...believe that by the employment of proper professional athletes as instructors, to act under the personal supervision of a director of Physical Education, the students would not only gain more rapidly in experience and skill, but would do so with less risk of over training and its dangerous results. Indeed, looking at the question from a sanitary point of view, it seems difficult to imagine any more dangerous practice, than to intrust numbers of young men animated by a spirit of strong rivalry, with the preparation for athletic contests, without the constant supervision of regular training masters, all of whose...
...That every director or instructor in physical exercises or athletic sports must be appointed by the college authorities, and announced as such in the catalogue...
...first resolution is that any "director or instructor in physical exercises or athletic sports" must be appointed by the college and his name announced in the catalogue. There is no objection to this resolution apparently, and we only mention it here, because it emphasizes the fact that the function of physical education is already recognized generally by the colleges...
...first one, in reference to the appointment of a director of physical training, has no especial fault, other than its uselessness. We have no objection to the printing of a dozen names, more or less, in the college catalogue. In regard to the second resolution, excluding professional trainers, student opinion is divided. No one objects to the general theory that professionalism should be excluded from our athletics. But a great many do object to the methods which have been adopted to exclude that professionalism. The faculty certainly would not wish us to have amateur teachers in mathematics or physics...