DR. GEORGE E. DAWSON’

PuysicaL EDUCATION SEMINAR

‘The Physical Education Seminar last
year studied the curriculum of physical
education in the one hundred thirty-
nine institutions preparing teachers of
physical education.

‘This summer, in place of the study

of institutions preparing teachers, a
seminar will make a comparative study
of typical public school curricula as
shown in the leading state and city
school systems syllabi. The seminar
will compare these syllabi with the de-
velopment of the central nervous sys-
tem. ‘The course will point out what
the courses are at present and discuss
what changes might be made in the
light of the development. of the central
nervous system.

Dr. George E. Dawson will offer
two courses, namely, psychology of
physical education and ethnology of
physical education. ‘These courses con-
sider the basal human and national char-
acteristics and expressions as aspects of
the neuro-motor mechanism. ‘They
deal with the emotions, attitudes and
motives of various peoples at various
ages of the world’s development and
in various geographical and _ racial
groups. Consideration is also given to
the integration of motor activity with
education, with character formation
and with individual development. ‘This
offers a splendid opportunity for those
who wish to study the real significance
of physical education and its contribu-

tion to individual and national charac-
teristics. Because of his long experi-
ence as director of psychological and
research bureaus, Dr. Dawson is pecul-
iarly well fitted to conduct the above
courses.

PsyCHOLOGICAL PROBLEMS IN
‘TRAINING

Under the leadership of Dr. Karpo-
vich who is professor of physiology in

the College, an advanced course will

be offered dealing with the scientific
aspects of various forms of activity and
the essentials in training and prepara-
tion. It will be of especial interest to

coaches and others desirous of bringing |

performers up to the stage of their
highest possible efficiency and will in-

 

DR. CHARLES C. WILSON

clude a detailed study of the skeleton,
the muscles, the types of respiration, the
changes in the blood and circulation,
indices of fitness, relation of diet to
training and the effect of various types
of exercises upon the fundamental
bodily processes. .

Mr. Thomas K. Cureton, Jr., pro-
fessor of physics in the regular college
year, is offering a particularly interest-
ing course, largely experimental, in which
the mechanical aspects of the various
events and their conduct will be con-
sidered. It will include the application
of mechanical laws to athletic activities
and of physiological physics to bodily
processes. Engineering problems of
building construction, heating, lighting
and ventilation and many details in con-
nection with the technique of starting,

specializing in public health.

timing and other aspects of competi-
tive athletics will be given some con-
sideration.

Dr. Charles C. Wilson who presents
the course in health education has spe-
cial training and qualifications for this
work. Upon graduation from Spring-
field in 1917, he served for several
years very acceptably in the Associa-
tion field. During the war he was in
the Sanitary Detachment of the 305th
Infantry. After his honorable dis-

charge he was appointed as physical di-

rector in the public schools of Hartford,
Connecticut. He then took his medical
degree with high honors from Yale,
He is
now director of the department of
health and physical education in the
public schools of Evansville, Indiana,
and has administrative and supervisory
responsibility for all health matters, in-
cluding medical and nursing service,
mental hygiene, physical education,
health instruction, communicable dis-
ease control, sanitation, etc.

 

 

 

HEARTLY W. ANDERSON