ence every teacher in every department on the entire staff of
the institution to meet his obligations, in relation to the
individual hygiene of the students in his classes and to the
sanitation of the class rooms in which he meets his students. The
coordinator should bring information to all teachers and assist
them to meet more satisfactorily their opportunities to help
students in their individual problems in social hygiene.
(5) Special lectures on the principles and progress of public
hygiene and public health. A close coordination should be secured
between this department and community agencies like the Department
of Health that are concerned with public hygiene.
(6) Sufficient clerical, stenographic and filing service to meet
the needs of the department.
In February, 1919, the field service of the National Committee on
Physical Education issued a tentative outline for a state law for
physical education, suggested for use in planning future legislation.
The purposes of physical education as stated in the preamble of this
law read as follows:
1. In order that the children of the State of .... shall receive
a quality and an amount of physical education that will bring to
them the health, growth and a normal organic development that is
essential to their fullest present and future education,
happiness and usefulness; and in order that the future
citizenship of the State of .... may receive regularly from the
growing and developing youth of the Commonwealth a rapidly
increasing number of more vigorous, better educated, healthier,
happier, more prosperous and longer lived men and women, we, the
people of the State of .... represented in the Senate and
Assembly do enact as follows:
=By Legislative Committee of National Committee on Physical Education=
In February, 1919, the legislative committee of the National Committee
on Physical Education prepared a bill for federal legislation for the
purpose of assisting the states in establishing physical education in
their schools. This proposed federal law stated the purpose and aim of
physical education as follows:
The purpose and aim of physical education in the meaning of this
act shall be: more fully and thoroughly to prepare the boys and
girls of the nation for the duties and responsibilities of
citizenship through the development of b
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