A guide to the history of physical educationLeonard, Fred Eugene
History
A guide to the history of physical education
Leonard, Fred Eugene
Physical education and training; Physical education and training -- History
[Illustration: FIG. 57.—Dunfermline College of Hygiene and Physical
Education: The New College and Clinics Building.]
To this fragmentary review of certain phases of physical education
in Great Britain a paragraph on the Dunfermline College of Hygiene
and Physical Training should be added. The Carnegie Dunfermline Trust
was formed in August of 1903, and in the hands of its Trustees Andrew
Carnegie placed a princely fund to be used for the benefit of the town
of his birth. A gymnasium was opened October 21, 1904, and the New Baths
March 31, 1905. Physical training was introduced into the schools soon
after the Trustees came into office, and medical inspection of school
children was begun in 1906. October 4, 1905, a College of Hygiene and
Physical Training (for women) was opened, offering a two-year course and
housed at first in the Gymnasium and Swimming Pool, on Pilmur Street.
Three years later a men’s department was added, and the two departments
were united in 1911. By the next fall 75 students had received diplomas
for the full course. Meanwhile, in July of 1909, the Trustees learned
that the College had been recognized by the Scotch Education Department
as a Central Institution for the purpose of the Education (Scotland) Act
of 1908, _i.e._, for the training of teachers for the schools of that
country; and by an arrangement approved in 1912 the services of certain
teachers on the college staff are available for the work of inspecting
the teaching of physical exercises in schools throughout Scotland.
Venturefair Park, seven acres in extent, was leased for the games of the
College students and opened July 27, 1909, and in September of 1914 a new
building, the foundation stone of which had been laid by Mr. Carnegie two
years before, was occupied by the College and the School Clinics. Early
in 1911 the original gift to the Trust had been increased by one half,
raising the fund to $3,750,000.
BIBLIOGRAPHY.
The Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes (London: Longmans, Green &
Co.; Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 28 volumes, 1885-1896) is unique in its
field. Robert Scott Fittis, in “Sports and Pastimes of Scotland” (Paisley
and London, Alexander Gardner, 1891), offers some material of historical
interest. Other sources have been mentioned or suggested in the text.
FOOTNOTES:
[156] See footnote, page 133.
[157] He died February 20, 1884, at the age of sixty-four.
[158] Described in the _Deutsche Turn-Zeitung_ for January, 1860 (V: 8).
[159] In “The Life of William Morris” (London and New York: Longmans,
Green & Co., 1899).
[160] In “Memorials of Edward Burne-Jones” (New York, The Macmillan Co.,
1904).
[161] “Mrs. Maclaren was the daughter of D. A. Talboys, the Oxford
printer, and under her father had been trained as a first-rate classical
scholar” (Charles L. Graves, in “Life and Letters of Alexander
Macmillan,” London, Macmillan & Co., 1910).
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