Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Physical Education at Its ... Annual Meeting, Volumes 1-7Republican Press Association, 1885 |
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Page 7 - So every spirit, as it is most pure, And hath in it the more of heavenly light, So it the fairer body doth procure To habit in, and it more fairly dight, With cheerful grace and amiable sight. For, of the soul, the body form doth take, For soul is form, and doth the body make.
Page 21 - The Principles of Physiology, applied to the Preservation of Health, and to the Improvement of Physical and Mental Education.
Page 162 - Report of the Board of Trustees of Public Schools of the District of Columbia for iSpS-'oo, Superintendent of Schools, Washington, DC "Vacation Schools,
Page 46 - Our civilization is so bent on the conquest of nature and the production of wealth that it perpetually strains its supply of nervous energy and produces disaster. Here is the special problem of our time for hygiene to meet — How to restore and conserve nervous energy.
Page 19 - I like a church; I like a cowl; I love a prophet of the soul; And on my heart monastic aisles Fall like sweet strains, or pensive smiles; Yet not for all his faith can see Would I that cowled churchman be.
Page 35 - An average is obtained by dividing the sum of the values observed by the number of observations, while a mean is the value at which the largest number of observations occur.
Page 50 - ... skin, in order that the superfluous warmth may be disposed of. The skin is thus exercised, as it were, and the sudoriparous and sebaceous glands are set -at work. The lungs and skin are brought into operation, and the lungs throw off large quantities of water, containing in solution matters which, if retained, would produce disease in the body. Wherever the blood is sent, changes of a healthful character occur. The brain and the rest of the nervous system are invigorated, the stomach has its...
Page 44 - It represents the supreme attainment of the world in pure beauty, because it is pure beauty and nothing beyond. Christianity reaches beyond beauty to holiness. Other heathen religions fall short of the Greek idea and lack an essential element which the Greek religion possessed. The Greeks believed that the divine is at the same time human ; and human not in the sense that the essence of man, his purified intellect and will, is divine, but human in the corporeal sense as well. The gods of Olympus...
Page 51 - ... lungs. Congestion, as before said, is easily initiated, and if continued, will produce functional derangements connected with the organs of digestion and circulation. The seeds of indigestion, renal weakness, liver complaint, constipation, even of fearful scourges like Bright's disease, may be sown in the system in early years by injudicious confinement in the schoolroom.
Page 44 - Isthmian, the Nemean, and the Pythian games. Exercises that shall give the soul sovereignty over the body and develop it into beauty are religious in this sense. Every village has its games for physical development ; these are attended by the people, who become in time judges of perfection in human form, just as a community that attends frequent horse races produces men that know critically the good points of a horse.