Show STUDENT LIFE I 4 pfjpgtcal Cbucation In "any academic or collegiate institution we necessarily hear a great deal about mental development That is meet and as it should be Mental development is a subject about which we cannot hear too much but there are other subjects about which we should hear something and I desire this morning to put in a word for Physical education fear that you will be somewhat dissappointed in what I am not going I am going to say Now I to talk about trapezes parallel bars or boxing gloves that phase of physical education always takes care of itself I am going to talk about a physical education that develops from within out a physical education in which mind controls and shapes matter to an exact similitude of itself Keep in mind please that I do not mean to disparage in any sense whatever the physical education that concerns itself with apparatus running tracks diamonds and gridirons I believe most emphatically in that phase of physical education but I also believe that physical education in its highest sense is often mis- I understood and misinterpreted think that the particular phase I wish to emphasize will present itself to your minds almost in its entirity if I preface it with a text a text that you are all familiar with and know where to find “Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost — therefore glorify God in your body’ I wonder how many of us have ever thought of the body as a temple? I wonder how many of us think of the body at all except as a troublesome sort of a machine that doesn’t want to get up in’ the morning and that can’t always be depended upon to get us to school in time or as a framework for a pretty gown when the ocassion the tendency of the student to neglect his body to acquire the “student’s stoop’’ and various other unnecessary evils and so before the school year grows any older I wish to add my small word to the work of the various departments of physical education in this institution for a nobler conception of the human body calls I know |