Bulletin Announcements of Courses

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919. Excerpt: ... HYGIENE. The Department of Hygiene is made up of the divisions of Physical Training, Physiology, Bacteriology, Health Examination, Recreational Instruction, and Athletics. Through these divisions the Department attempts to influence young men to form individual and community habits of hygiene that will lead to the acquisition and conservation of health and thus better prepare them for the physical demands of citizenship for peace or for war. This organization gives opportunity for the development of neglected organic and neuromuscular growth, co-ordination and control; for the social, ethical, and moral training (character building influences) that come from wisely supervised athletic and recreational experiences; and for the special conditioning that accompanies training for severe physical and physiological competitions and other tests. Finally, preparation may be secured for life work in certain lines of research, certain medical sciences, various phases of public health, physical training and social work. In addition, this Department is concerned with all those influences within the College which affect the health of the student. Every reasonable effort is made to keep the institution safe and attractive to the clean, healthy individual. DIVISION OF PHYSICAL TRAINING. Professors Storey, Wall and Williamson, Mr. McKenzie, Mr. O'Neil, Mr. Reichardt, and Assistants. 1. Course One. (a) Lectures. Some of the common causes of disease. (b) Physical Exercise, i. Graded mass drills. (a) Elementary drills are used in order to give experience in mass formations and to develop obedience, alertness, and ready response to command, accurate execution, good posture and carriage and facility of control. (b) More advanced drills are given in which movements are made ...