10 THE PEN vnte institutions do this so necessary work of helping our less fortunate fellowincn. However, said Miss Ganjr, the Church still has its re- s])onsil)ilities in teaching its members to live the life of Christ as lived by the Great Master himself, and in ed ucating: its members in the necessity of taking care of their unhappy brethren. “Inasmuch as ye did it unto the least of these ye did it unto me.” —Charles Howell Jr. SPORTS Education Through Athletics Athletics and physical education liave come a long way since their early beginings in ancient Greece and Rome. However, during the mid dle ages, physical education and athletics, like manj' otlier factors of the culture of early Greece and Rome, became either lost or sadly neglectcd. When they w’ere revived, several innovations were made and during their evolution, became very lifferent from ancient physical edu cation. “The ancient was all for the cultivation of individual energy, in dividual strengtli, individual cour age; the modern aims at giving to a number of people acting in concert, the lifeless, effortless precision of a well directed machine.” “Physical education is tlic sum of man’s jihysical activities selected as to kind and conducted as to out come.” The term, “physical educa tion,” was not used to designate ac tivities in tiie beginning. Tyike the ac tivities which it now denotes, the term is the result of an evolutionary (irocess. At various times, it has been called "physical training” and “phy sical culture.” Hut, as the idea be came connected with education and came to mean “education through tlie pliysical” instead of “education of the physical” the term “phj’sical ed- cation” assumed dignity and rank witli education. In tlie United States, the histor}' of athletics and physical education is one of many struggles. ^While physical education might have been acee})ted, its relation and connection witli athletics caused a stigma to be attaelied). Raising out of crude forms of competition, disbarred by royal edict, frowned upon by wise men of certain times, exploited for conunereial purposes, and hampered by scandals, athletics remains an ap- jiealing source of delight and enjoy ment to the 3'oung of each generation- The P2nglish attitude towards ath- Ittics is very different from the A- meriean attitude. “English univer sity men view athletics as an agency of education.” Americans, on the otlier hand, decry college athletics and ask for their control or ignore them as mere student interests, un worthy of serious consideration by the university j)rofessors. Sports in American schools are often without the sanction and approval of educa tional authorities. In England the athletic coach has the same status as the professor of Greek. Sports are designed to make use of leisure time. The educational objec-

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