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The Effects Of Weight Cutting, H. Earl Rath
The Effects Of Weight Cutting, H. Earl Rath
Science Bulletin
During the last decade, wrestling has increased rapidly as a high school as well as a college sport. About this time of year in those high schools where wrestling is listed as an interclass or interschool sport, the coach is anxiously looking over the material available and trying to mentally arrange them into groups according to the classes in which they will have to compete.
A Plea For The Boys, Belva L. Swalwell
A Plea For The Boys, Belva L. Swalwell
Science Bulletin
Have you ever raised the question why high school boys are not allowed, as a rule, to take courses of the type of Personal Hygiene, Home and Community Hygiene, First Aid, Home Care of the Sick, Clothing, Foods, and the like - courses now open almost exclusively to girls?
Health Education, Belva L. Swalwell
Health Education, Belva L. Swalwell
Science Bulletin
Health work is so fundamental and so important that it cannot be left out of the high school course without seriously handicapping the individual, the state, and the nation. The recent state Iaws regarding health education place it, in effect, on a basis with other subjects. In other words, health education becomes one of the five major subjects running through the entire curriculum.
Stress Pertinent Facts In Health Teaching, Belva W. Swalwell
Stress Pertinent Facts In Health Teaching, Belva W. Swalwell
Science Bulletin
In the past, much of the health information which high school pupils acquired was handed down to them traditionally. They listened to what their elders had to say and seldom questioned the validity of it. Assertions to the effect that a buckeye carried in one's pocket would prevent rheumatism; that a piece of salt fat pork bound about the neck would counteract diphtheria; or that some malodorous substances would, if breathed, ward off certain communicable diseases were considered as truths and were passed on to the next generation. Since health is now taught in our high schools by teachers adequately …