"How Physical Training Affects the Welfare of the Nation"
Journal article
By: Baroness Rose Posse
Date: October 1910
Source: Posse, Baroness Rose. "How Physical Training Affects the Welfare of the Nation." American Physical Education Review, 15, no. 7, October 1910, 493–494, 496–497, 498, 499.
About the Author: Baroness Rose Posse, founder of the Posse Gymnasium of Boston, Massachusetts, was one of the nation's leading advocates of physical education for the country's boys and girls.
Introduction
The physical education movement burst onto the American scene in the early years of the twentieth century. The cause of physical education was a solid idea on its own merits; no one could argue against the benefits of physical fitness. But other motives drove the movement, which reflected some of the deeper anxieties present in American life around 1910.
In an earlier age, when America was predominately a...
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