and conservation of human
health--mental, moral, and physical health. Because of his physical
training, the college man should live longer; he should meet his
environments obligations more successfully; he should be better able
to protect himself from, and better able to avoid, injury; he should
lose less time on account of injury, poor health, and sickness; he
should get well more rapidly when he is sick; he should be better able
to recover his health and strength after injury or illness; and he
should therefore give to society a fuller, happier, and more useful
life.

Such a department is concerned secondarily with (_a_) those special
defects of earlier physical training that bring to college, students
in need of neuro-muscular training and organic development, (_b_) with
social, ethical, and character training, and (_c_) with the
conditioning and special training of students for athletic competition
or for other extraordinary physical and physiological demands.

In the light of the above statements, the objects of physical training
may be summarized as follows:

I. The fundamental and ever present object of physical training
is the acquisition and conservation of vigorous, enduring health,
the summated effect of perfect functions in each and every organ
of the human body.

II. The special objects of physical training vary in their needs
for emphasis at different age periods and under the changing
stresses of life. Among the more important of these special
objects are:

(1) General, normal growth. An object in the early age periods.

(2) Neuro-muscular development, coordination, and control.
Accomplished best in early age periods.

(3) Special organic (anatomical and functional) development.
Optimum period in childhood and youth.

(4) Social, ethical, and moral training. Character building.
Objects more easily secured in childhood and youth.

(5) Preparation for some supreme physical and physiological test;
e.g., athletic competition, police or fire service, military
service. Most desirable training period in late youth and early
maturity. Must depend, however, on the effects of earlier
physical training.

(6) The formation of health habits. Best accomplished in early
life but commonly an important function of the College
Department of