reports required each term covering progress made under each
division and subdivision of the department, for the purpose of
discovering and developing more effective educational methods in
hygiene.
(_b_) Provide facilities for the sifting, selection, and
investigation of problems in hygiene that may be submitted to or
proposed by the department of hygiene.
(_c_) Arrange for frequent lectures on public hygiene and public
health from competent members of municipal, state, and national
departments of health, and from other appropriate sources.
IV. _Personnel requisite for such a department._--Men and women
should be chosen for service in the several divisions of the
Department, who have a sane, well-balanced, and experienced
appreciation of the importance of the whole field of hygiene as
well as of the place and relations of the venereal diseases.
(1) One director or head of department. Must have satisfactory
scientific training and special experience, fitting him for
supervision, leadership, teaching, research, and administrative
responsibility.
(2) One medical examiner for men and one medical examiner for
women. There should be one examiner for each 500 students. Must be
selected with special care because of the presence of
extraordinary opportunities to exercise a powerful intimate
influence upon the mental, moral, and physical health of the
students with whom such examiners come in contact.
(3) One special teacher of physical training (a "Physical
Director") for each group of 500 students. There must be a man for
the men and a woman for the women students. The physical training
instructors employed in this department should be in charge of and
should cover satisfactorily all the directing, training, and
coaching carried on in the department and in the institution in
its relation to athletics and competitive sports. The men and
women who are placed in charge of individual students and groups
of students engaged in the various activities of physical training
(gymnastics, athletics, recreation and play) should be selected
with special reference to their wholesome influence on young men
and young women.
(4) One coordinator (this function may be covered by one of the
personnel covered by "1," "2" or "3" above). Will serve to
influ
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