Dr. Sargent Advocates Physical Training in Curriculum

In an address on "The Physical Needs of Scholars, Athletes and the Average Man" at New York during the holidays, Dr. Dudley A. Sargent, physical director of the University, advanced the proposition that physical training be made a part of the regular curriculum. Dr. Sargent spoke before the Society of College Gymnasium Directors, at Columbia University.

In the last 25 years, he pointed out, physical improvement has been made by all classes of college men except those holding scholarships. Statistics of Harvard athletes and scholarship men give evidence of the inferior physical development of the latter class. The deficiency on the part of the scholars in our colleges is worthy of grave consideration. If scholarship men cannot be induced to take time to improve their physique, for fear of lowering their college standing, then make physical training a part of the curriculum and give them credit for their standing in their physical work.