A PROPOSED REVISION OF THE PROGRAM OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION
FOR MEN AT THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA

SUMMARY OF PROPOSED PROGRAM

 

Time: Three times per week for all students between lower and upper
: test limits. Five times per week for those below lower test
limit (those with "strength age" of 12 and below, based on
Service Standards, or 15 and below on Civilian Standards).

 

 

who: All male students below 36 years of age,
Credit: One s.h. per semester for all who are not excused.
Tests; To be given at beginning of first semester, and at end of

 

both semesters,

Bxcused: Those excused by Student Health Service as not able to
exercise will be entirely excused. Those certified as not
eligible for ee to be required to take first two years
only.

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A&A PROPOSED REVISION OF THE PROGRAM OF
PHYSICAL EDUCATION FOR MEN AT THE
STATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA

The young men of the United States are being called to the
Service for war. The number of such men will increase greatly in the
next year or two. It is imperative that these young men be as fit as
possible physically, mentally, and emotionally. The Division of
Physical Education feels that.every American educational institution
at this time should take such steps as are possible to remedy the
deplorable lack of physical fitness that exists in our country.

The men's department of the Division of Physical FKducation
in our University has for many years been forced to labor under severe
handicaps, which have greatly hampered its effectiveness. This situa-
tion is not due te staff or to administration, but to the fact that
insufficient time has been allowed for the accomplishment of really
effective results. ith one S5-minute period a week for the first year
and with two 35-minute periods a week for the second year, the total
time (including the time for the organizing of the class and for the
going to and from the playfields) has been the equivalent of, on the
average, only 53 minutes a week for ¢ach year, or about 1 full clasa=
room period a week a year. The student in his physical education courses
ig expected to master in this short time not only one activity but also |
a curriculum of not fewer than six different kinds of activities on