1900's Sports | "General Health of Girls in Relation to Athletics"

Speech

By: Katherine D. Blake

Date: March 30, 1906

Source: Blake, Katherine D. "General Health of Girls in Relation to Athletics." Paper read before the Public School Physical Training Society, New York, March 30, 1906. In American Physical Education Review 11, no. 3, September 1906, 171–174.

About the Author: Katherine D. Blake (1858–1950) was the daughter of Lille Devereux Blake, a pioneer in the movement for women's suffrage. Katherine herself led various women's groups, including the Association of Women School Principals of New York and the teacher's section of the New York State Women's Suffrage Association. Blake traveled to Russia in 1929 to meet with Soviet educators, and in 1932 presented a disarmament petition to President Herbert Hoover (served 1929–1933) at the International Disarmament Conference in Geneva, Switzerland.

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