odily vigor and
endurance, muscular strength and skill, bodily and mental poise,
and such desirable moral and social qualities as courage,
self-control, self-subordination and obedience to authority,
cooperation under leadership, and disciplined initiative. The
processes and agencies for securing these ends shall be
understood to include: comprehensive courses of physical training
activities, periodical physical examination; correction of
postural and other remediable defects; health supervision of
schools and school children; practical instruction in the care of
the body and in the principles of health; hygienic school life,
sanitary school buildings, playgrounds, and athletic fields and
the equipment thereof; and such other means as may be conducive
to these purposes.

An analysis of these several authoritative and more or less official
documents indicates very clearly a unanimity as to scope and aims of
physical education, for they all seek to promote and conserve, in the
broadest sense of the term, the health of the nation.

=Poor type of physical education in secondary schools intensifies problem
in the college=

The problem of physical education in the college is intensified by the
fact that freshmen come to their chosen institutions with a variety of
experience in physical training, but unfortunately this experience is,
too often, either inadequate or ineffective. The natural physical
training of the earlier age periods produces whatever neuro-muscular
development, whatever neuro-muscular coordination, whatever
neuro-muscular control, and whatever other organic growth,
development, or functional perfection is achieved by the young human
concerned. A program of physical training wisely planned with
reference to infancy, childhood, and early youth would include types
of exercises, play, games, and sports, that would perfect the
neuro-muscular and other functions far more completely than is
commonly accomplished through the natural unsupervised and undirected
physical training of those early age periods either in city or in
rural communities. The force of modern habits of life has led to the
destruction of those natural habits of work, play, and recreation that
gave a proportion of our forebears a fairly complete natural program
of physical exercise during the plastic or formative periods of life.
As a result, many students reach college nowadays