Show Of EDUCATION NOW AT AI PRINCETON COLLEGE I I I I Students Students' Health Regarded at University as of Prime I I Importance I N. N J. J May 21 l Idealizing in ing that physical as we well as mental edu edu- education education cation is s necessary for the tho development of a we well rounded man inan tho the trustees of Princeton nn university recently authorized authorised the appointment of a committee 4 H to lo to consi consider er tho time need for the student body of Princeton of a comprehensive plan Illan of physical training This committee which consists of Robert Garrett 97 07 of Baltimore Md chairman Andrew C. C Imbrie 93 95 of oi Princeton and Henry B B. B Thompson 77 77 of Wilmington Del Dell has presented a report and its findings finding made Dude public today arc in part as follows follows fol fol- I lows Iun's In time tho past educators have t neglected to give Ji systematic 8 attention to the physical physical phy phy- needs of tho thu average student while on the other hand the student has gone Oll to tho the opposite extreme of Ilori glorifying glorify glorify- y- y ing athletics and neglecting as far as IS possible intellectual pursuits In ono caso the bod body of the stu student suffered in in inthe tho the other the tho mind was kept in check and amI in both cases it was an accident if well welt rounded men were developed Now wo we must como come corno to the realization that body and mind min ml are arc so 80 bound together to to- gether ether that when the tho body suffers tho time mind nand suffers with it or to put it in iii another form that tho the mind cannot attain attain at at- tain its fullest development when it is isa isa isa a part of a subnormal body Lody Wo We must pay more attention to tho the stu students student's ent's Ic he health m aIth if we w are arc to make ae the best hest of him hint and of hi his morals This Thi aim aini will not be he hard bard to reach thou though h perhaps somo ODlO few chan changes es of structure in to the w of the time un university will wiH have baye to be he undertaken Favorable Action This report was favorably fa acted upon upon by the trustees and in iii c consequence a anew anew new ne department of the tho university has bas been cn cr created called the department of physical education and provision has hns been made IT for the time appointment of a professor of ph physical education and nd as DS man ninny many assistants as as ml may be required and aud audas andas luda a as rc resources will dl allow alJo Tho The professor of or physical o education will be he moro more than thana a physical director Ho lie will wiH rank with tho tIre other members of time tile faculty It is true that the tho department will with have char charge e of o athletics but hut this fun function will be he a secondary one anti and its principal duty cluty will he be the time training of those students who arc are physically deficient delit d and time tho instruction of the undergraduate body in the fundamental principles of or riene and hJ hygiene physical wel wel- fare To aid them in in tho the work of phy physical ical training the members ers of or tho the new ne- department department de de- department I will j have e at their disposal tho the largest building used exclusive exclusively l for gymnastics in America if not In in n tho the world For or the tho Princeton gymnasium ium has a floor Space in the main room alone of square feet which i is surpassed only onh by hy some armories armories which are arc also J Iso used use incidentally as gymnasiums In addition to this main room it has an entrance hall used for the stora storage o of trophies won by Uj varsity athletic teams of which the limo area aren i ia is square aquaro feet as large as the ordinary gymnasium four rooms twenty twenty five e feet use used for fencing boxing etc with rooms for th the directors Upstairs there them is a 1 nann running track yards lon long longor I or slightly over o twelve twel laps t to time the mile Erected by Alumni This building was erected b by the alumni in 1903 at a total cost of and was immediately provided pro with whim tho the most adequate 2 equipment of ait any gymnasium in time the country Not ot only am afo there thero sixty chest weight machines 1 Q 0 pairs of dumbbells ranging in wei weight tt it from two to one hundred and twenty twenty- o fi pounds pairs of Indian Indium clubs and amid tho the usual parallel liars bars side horses etc but there thera is also n a large amount ox ot oil special apparatus unique to Princeton This Ibis includes ms balancing and ancl double trapeze tra tm triple bars ban and anda a a complete complete- or Of French ladder To 10 minimize mini mize ruize the danger an er of acci accident 1 1500 square fe feet t of suits mats are arc provided which ia is again a about out four tour times the amount in thu tho ordinary gymnasium In an a adjoining building is is time tIle Brokaw Brokaw Bro Bro- kaw swimming in tank feet long and nud 25 5 5 feet wide That this building has bas been of irn- irn use uso already in ill in kc keeping the Iho un undergraduates undergraduates under under- er graduates in good physical trim is attested at at- tested by tho the fact bet that th the average 3 number number num number num num- ber of wen men on ua the gymnasium floor daily between r 1 and March larch lm iJ is fa H 11 GOO About a L year car ago ao I however cr the students saw sa tho the need of sonic somo regular system 5 of outdoor exercise other than time tho strenuous and specialized training for the university teams and to this timis end a series of baseball games was arranged There are arc contests between teams n and III clubs formed voluntarily They were very successful and lU the same T plan lau has Ims been followed this year in in other sports including including in in- i basketball relay racing bowl howl in ing rowin rowing and tennis adding 8 tern tom to outdoor sport which is so much mucha much mucha a part of Princeton life iCe The new neww department indeed in will not nott have to create an nn enthusiasm for exer- exer ci f and physical training but hut rather will have ha to confine it its efforts largely to directing din the ener energy in ill Wa ways which will do du u tho Limo in individual i mot most CUQ good |