Excerpt from Handbook of Athletic Games for Players, Instructors, and Spectators: Comprising Fifteen Major Ball Games, Track and Field Athletics and Rowing RacesThis book is written for two classes of people: for those, first, who do not know the games represented, and who, either as teachers, players, officials, or spectators, want a clear, working description, and, second, for those who do know the games, but who need a ready reference, clea...
Excerpt from School Gymnastics Free Hand: A Graded Course of Physical Exercises for SchoolsThe course of lessons herewith presented for school use is in two divisions - freehand and light apparatus exercise, respectively. Each of these divisions is a complete course in itself, covering eight years of work, from the lowest primary to the highest grammar. The free-hand work, which is con tained in this volume, can be used in the regular classroo...
Excerpt from The Posture of School Children: With Its Home Hygiene and New Efficiency Methods for School Training
These efficiency methods consist of a combination Of stand ardized tests and group teaching worked out by the author during two years of special experimenting. In one year of general use they achieved remarkable results in upward of five thousand classes with children. These methods are largely an application of some of the princi...
Excerpt from School Gymnastics Free Hand: A Graded Course of Physical Exercises for Schools
First, the nutritive processes of the body, including circulation, respiration and the digestive functions, become weakened and deranged by lack of sufficient demand for their work, a demand which comes chie¿y through muscular activity.
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Excerpt from The Posture of School Children: With Its Home Hygiene and New Efficiency Methods for School Training
These efficiency methods consist of a combination Of stand ardized tests and group teaching worked out by the author during two years of special experimenting. In one year of general use they achieved remarkable results in upward of five thousand classes with children. These methods are largely an application of some of the princi...
Excerpt from Handbook of Athletic Games for Players, Instructors, and Spectators: Comprising Fifteen Major Ball Games, Track and Field Athletics and Rowing Races
This book is written for two classes of people: for those, first, who do not know the games represented, and who, either as teachers, players, officials, or spectators, want a clear, working description, and, second, for those who do know the games, but who need a ready reference, cl...
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