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standpoint of physical exercise ; this stand- 

 point has limited the scope of the depart- 

 ment to the possibilities that lie within the 

 range of physical exercise. It has re- 

 stricted the preparation required of teach- 

 ers of physical instruction to those subjects 

 or experiences bearing on some one or more 

 phases of physical exercise, and it has made 

 possible and deserved many criticisms be- 

 cause of its unacademic character and its 

 opportunities for the commission of injury 

 to individuals. 



Second: There have always been a few 

 directors of physical instruction who feel 

 that their field of work is larger than that 

 of physical exercise, and that it is con- 

 cerned with human health. 



Third : Physical instruction is now being 

 handled more and more from the stand- 

 point of human health. This point of view 

 broadens the scope of the department so 

 that it includes medical, sanitary and hy- 

 gienic supervision and instruction concern- 

 ing the simple fundamental laws of health 

 and the various phases of physical exercise. 

 This broader departmental scope necessi- 

 tates the employment of experts upon the 

 staff whose special training has fitted them 

 for medical, hygienic and sanitary super- 

 vision and instruction as for instruction in 

 the various and important phases of gym- 

 nasium and athletic work. 



In conclusion, gentlemen, permit me to 

 state that we who are interested in these 

 tendencies in physical instruction believe 

 they are tendencies in the right direction. 

 We believe that our professional and peda- 

 gogical aim has in view the achievement 

 and conservation of human health through 

 the regulation of physical instruction from 

 the standpoint of hygiene. "We believe 

 that this broad field belongs logically to 

 us. We believe that if we can develop 

 and conserve health in human beings, and 

 teach them how to exercise an intelligent 

 policy of personal health control, we shall 



have utilized whatever special scientific, 

 medical, hygienic and pedagogical train- 

 ing we may have, for the best interests of 

 humanity of which we are a part and of 

 the world in which we live. 



Thomas A. Storey 



COIXEQE OF THE CiXY OF NEW YoBK 



THE CARNEGIE FOUNDATION FOR THE 

 ADVANCEMENT OF TEACHING 



The annual reports of President Eliot 

 to the corporation of Harvard University 

 have in certain respects been the most in- 

 teresting educational documents of past 

 years ; their place wiU now be taken by the 

 reports of President Pritchett of the Car- 

 negie Foundation. In these reports and in 

 the intervening bulletins, there are not only 

 given lucid and complete accounts of the 

 activities of an institution of vast impor- 

 tance for higher education, but also careful 

 studies of the educational system of the 

 country. In this respect the foundation 

 sets an example to the General Education 

 Board, which keeps for its private use the 

 information that it collects, and does not 

 even publish the financial statements that 

 should be required by law from every cor- 

 poration, and first of all from those ex- 

 empted from taxation. 



President Pritchett 's third annual report, 

 which covers the year ending September 

 30, 1908, shows that the new grants made 

 during the year amounted to $113,765. 

 The grants in force amounted to $303,505, 

 an increase of $101,360 over the preceding 

 year. Should this increase continue for 

 two further years, the income of the foun- 

 dation would be exhausted. The retiring 

 allowances in force were: On basis of age, 

 86; on basis of length of service, 81; for 

 disability, 15 ; to widows of professors, 29. 

 The average age of those retired for length 

 of service is 65.7 years, so that it would 

 appear that more than half of them are 

 entitled to retirement for age. The aver- 



