curriculum, scientifically formulated and taught, often under the

emotional stress of keen competition with its deep and swift instinctive
and emotional under-currents, offers possibilities of character education
not often present in a classroom. I believe that the content of the
physical education marriculum should be limited to tle attainment of the
above ends. Dramatics and pageantry and similar activities should be taken
care of by other departments. The department of physical education shall,
of course, cobperate in such activities, but they should not unduly
encroach upon the small amount of time that physical education is apt to
secure in this decade, with the limited equipment usually available.

OBJECTIVES

Research in the field of physical education has been so small in
amount that little is know as to what really can be accomplished. Much
that is unproven has been assumed and defended upon either a priori grounds,
or upon the shaky grounds of uncontrolled experience-observation. What
is given here under this heading of "objectives" comprises a very brief
resume of what the writer believes can be accomplished. It is advanced
only as opinion, based upon the same experience-observation, and is sub~
ject to radical revision when experimental facts give amy basis for a
revision. The fact that the human race in the past has developed most of
these traits when big-muscle activities and the situations associated
with them, were the sole educational content, is of some value as evidence
that these objectives can probably all be accomplished, and are, in fact,
relatively easy of accomplishment. The suggested list of objectives
follows:

The objectives given here are the writer's arrangement. There is
little that is new presented, but the list is given here for the sake
of completeness, and for the information of those who have given little
thought to the matter. Other excellent presentations of objectives may
be found in the American Physical Education Review, June 1920 and May 1921.

I. Physical Objectives - Concerning the Body Only

« The development of a sound physique, as sound and well-balanced
as the heredity of the individual will permit;) free from structural
and functional defects, resiliant and adaptable to all normal and ab=
normal conditions; strong enough and with sufficient speed and endurance
to mect any reasonable demands of the emergencies of life- and just a little
bit more ~, in other words, with a factor of safetye

2 Soundly functioning organs; health and physiological soundness ;
a surplus organic vigore

The above two categories might be broken up into many sub-groups,
put the essentials of the physical needs of man are there. To accomplish
the above, there mst, of course, be a thorough cooperation with the
medical agencies through effective physical examination and the elimination
of remedial physical defects. There must also be an emphasis on the

hygienic life in its broader phases, of which more is mentioned below.
IIe Skills and Abilities

1. There should be training in general bodily control, in efficiency
of movement, in movement without waste of energy, in the ability to make