Identifier: newrationalathle00reil (find matches)
Title: New rational athletics for boys and girls
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Reilly, Frederick Joseph, 1872-
Subjects: Athletics
Publisher: Boston, New York (etc.) D. C. Heath & Co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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is 200. For greaterflexibility in marking the minor subjects,the maximum in scholarship is 300. Conse-quently in a competition of this sort, physicaltraining and mental training take almostequal rank. This, it seems to us, is as itshould be. AYe all subscribe to the ancientmotto: A sound mind in a sound body,yet how far we fall short of this aim in ourschool work! On the one hand we have theschool, just beginning to recognize physicaltraining in a perfunctory sort of way and asa very minor subject; and on the other wehave the Athletic Association, heaping hon-ors, insignia, and applause on the mem-bers of its teams for success in athleticsalone. In our system, the boy or girl who earnsa bronze button for athletics, a silver but-ton for scholarship, or a gold button for both,earns also the right to wear on cap, sweater,or middy blouse, the official emblem of the FOR BOYS AND GIRLS 127 school — a felt monogram 33 in a modifiedcircle, in the school colors, blue and white. (Plate J^8.)
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Plate 48. — The School Emblem The winner of a bronze or silver button inthe 8A grade (first half of the 8th year) mayqualify for a silver or gold button, respec-tively, in SB. But no one is awarded twobuttons of the same order. No one but the 128 NEW RATIONAL ATHLETICS winner of a button is allowed to wear theofficial monogram of the school. The two points we wish to emphasize, evenat the risk of tiring by repetition, are: 1. That in this system of Rational Ath-letics, scholarship and physical training areon practically an equal footing. 2. That boys and girls are on exactly thesame footing, receiving the same kind oftraining (with somewhat different exercises),and the same rewards. IX. THE PENTATHLON The Pentathlon, as its name implies, is acompetition in five events, constituting anall-round championship. The Pentathlon andthe Decathlon (ten events) come down to usfrom the days of the Ancient Greek Olym-pics, having been revived and somewhatmodified in our modern Olympics. Takingt

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