Allen

Schwegler

Allen

Schwegler

Allen

Schwegler

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But, Dean Schwogler, if habit formation is a worth while thins,
will not the right type of compotitive athletics be a means to cn
end in developing certain right practices of intclligent living,
intelligent body building, living that should prove worth while?
Of course, I definitely feol that many parasites and imposters
have taken advantage of our activitics, but it secms to me that
there are more boys who are refusing to smoke cigarettes, not on
amoral basis at all, but merely because they are individuals
wanting to build body resistance to outdo their competitors. But
in the years of activity these plastic youth are definitely say-
ing "no", It seams to me that the educator has found nothing
that will grip and hold the girl in the interest of true body
building as athletics have held the boy.

You tend to misinterpret my statements, I would be the last
person to say that the habits to which you have roferred are not
worth while. They are. As long as they are practiced they un-
deniably are productive of many execllont and desirable resultse
You did not ask me whether I thought that the habits as such were
desirable. You asked me whethor they continued to function after
the training had been left behind, That is, whether these habits,
once established, tended to function automabically throughout lifce
Unfortunately, they do note We all wish that they might. But as
soon as the thrills have rolaxed, as soon as the attention of the
individual is absorbed by interests and drives other than those
that relate to the pursuit of physical pre-ominence, woe find that
under tho stress of other impulses many of these habits undergo
changee Some of them probably are never completely abandonede
That they all POVenats however, throughout life is wmfortunately
not truce

Well, now, Dean Schwegler, this is not a rebuttal, but isn't this
same situation true in all types of traininge

Unfortumately it ise Just look at my handwriting, if you noed proof

Well, that is wholly satisfactory to mc, because I know of no
activity or training indulged in by youth that can be the ultimate
aim in maturity. Dean Schwegler, in your opinion, do intramural
contests fill an educational need and have they a rightful place
in the physical education program?

I would answer your question very positively and in the affirmative,
and for the following reasonse One of the most pressing lifelong
needs that confronts every human being in his effort to master the
art of efficient living is that of first becoming familiar with his
own body and with the fimctions for the effective performance of
which that body is adaptede Secondly, we have neod of the cstabe
listment of smoothly functioning habits of behavior by means of
which the individual may develop and maintain satisfying contacts
with his fellow men. Satisfactory human relations are always
established by moans of physical function, or, if you prefer, by
means of human behavior. Thore is no such way of understanding