BOYS AND SPORT
Headmaster Condemns Professionalism CHARACTER AND MANHOOD (Australian and N.Z. Press Association) Reed. 9.5 a.m. VANCOUVER, Wed. A strenuous attack on professional sport was made before the National Council of Education b-v Mr. L. B. Franklin, headmaster of the Melbourne Grammar School. The speaker showed how the influence of English public school sports had been encouraged to dominate school life in Australia. He believed that education should be extended to give power, strength, self-control, and endurance of body, mind and spirit. He condemned the sort of sport ■which was carried on for money, and deplored engaging in sport for advertising or self-glorification. It was not important, he said, if boys should win Olympic championships, but it was* highly important that they should receive the right kind of physical training. Private schools in Australia were modelled after the British system, which contributed to the building up of real character and manhood.
Mr. Robert Jarman, of Britain, urged sound, physical education for boys.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 635, 11 April 1929, Page 9
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