Image: Outing (1885) (14579831590)

Description: Identifier: outing55newy (find matches) Title: "A New Idea in Athletics" The Outing Magazine Vol. 55 No. 6, March 1910, pp. 651-661 Year: 1910 (1910s) Authors: Walter Camp Subjects: Leisure Sports Travel Publisher: (New York : Outing Pub. Co.) Contributing Library: Tisch Library Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: A realizing sense of this means that those in charge of our educational affairs, while believing that men should be made to study, believe also that they should be made to play; that those who need the study especially should be forced, and those who need the play should be equally forced; that it is essential to all-around education that the physically poorly equipped should be attracted to play and ready to play because they like it. Where that seems impossible, it is still essential to make certain demands upon them in this way if they are to be properly developed with a fair prospect of anything like successful careers. The problem is how far one may go in endeavoring to force the horse to drink, having led him to the water. Too great supervision over the sports of [page number] 652 Text Appearing After Image: FOOTBALL UNIFORM OF THE DAY OF CANVAS JACKET AND FLANNEL TROUSERS: THE LATE FREDERIC REMINGTON. youth usually turns out badly, and the same would undoubtedly follow too great anxiety to direct the students. We may, however, show the springs of good water to both horses. As new ideas usually have their origin in some want or inquiry, so the new idea in athletics sprang from a very definite desire that, was being expressed on all sides. It was set forth so that all who ran might read that there was a really educational value in athletics. At first a tremendous increase of interest along this line took the body of educators unawares, and almost before they knew it they were overwhelmed. It seemed to the conservative ones that this young giant was threatening all the old standards and beliefs. From this fact there very speedily grew up two camps, those who rebelled against the encroachment of athletics on the one side and those who welcomed it enthusiastically on the other. For a time it looked like war between the two parties... Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
Title: Outing (1885) (14579831590)
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