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A considerable number of leaders in education are seriously considering a limited extention of the educational program in the summer. The various churches conduct what are sometimes called vacation schools, some of which are conducted in mountain retreats, where they combine recreation and bible study classes. There is now a law in Utah which permits school districts to levy taxes to pay for organized pbulic recreation programs. An extention of any one or all of these prgrams into a community should be preceded by a knowledge of the amount of leisure time that is available and the attitude of the partnest toward such programs. The increase in the number of labor saving devices and the restrictions by the labor unions, together witch child labor laws, complicate the problem of students getting jobs in business and industry with the reslt that the problem of leisure is becoming increasingly more important. Again, if the country should go into a mild depression resulting in fewer jobs being available, the extention of organized recreation programs would assume a role of even greater importance. Therefore, the purpose of the study is to determine the amount of time high shcool students spend working, either for pay or for no pay, and the amount of time they spend participating in recreational activities during the summer months.

The first organized program in physical education appeared in American colleges at the University of Virginia between the years 1850 and 1860. the first public school program appeared somewhat later. Since these beginnings, school and college programs have advanced steadily, keeping pace with our advancement in the philosophy of education and biological science. At the present time, almost all schools include physical education as an element in the curriculum. The primitive man undertook to teach physical education as a necessity of self-preservation. In more recent times, the Greeks, Romans, Swedes, and English are a few of the people who have played an important role in the development of physical education. These people and their influence have led to the establishment of organized physical education in our American schools. They have determined the theory and practices which are distributed throughout the human race. Today physcial education should undertake to teach skills in a variety of sports which promote wholesome self-expression and desirable social training in a democracy. The high school graudate, upon reaching the college level should have previously experienced a full, well-rounded program in physical education. It is the opinion of this writer that male sutdents entering the Utah State Agricultural College as freshmen have not been taught a variety of skills in a variety of sports. Therefore, it is the purpose of the present study to determine: (1) the physical education background of freshmen boys matriculating at the Utah State Agricultural College in the fall quarter of 1950, and (2) the current interests of each of these students in physcial education activities.

The 1st Annual Utah State Agricultural College Coaching School was held in 1927. The originator and director of the school is E. L. Romney, professor of physical education, director of athletics, and head football coah, Utah State Agricultural College. He has directed this school from its beginning and has consistently obtained leading coaches in the United States as instructors. The school was begun by Coach Romney because he felt that high school and college coaches needed to learn, through specialized intruction by outstanding authorities, the latest developments in coaching principal sports. The purpose of the present study is to determine (1) the areas from which coaches come to attend the Utah State Agricultural College Coaching School, (2) whether or not the people attending the 22nd Annual Coaching School at the Utah State Agricultural College attend regularly, (3) to what extent information and material available at the school are used in the coach's own coaching program, (4) if the school is answering the needs of the coaches attending, and (5) whether or not there is any social value in attending the school, (6) a comparison of all Utah State coaching schools, (7) what, if any, instructional methods need to be used more in the instructor's presentation of material. This information should prove valuable (1) as a guide to Directors of Coaching Schools in building their programs for their particular coaching school, (2) to coaches in determining the value of the coaching school.

The Objectives of this investigation were to study the extent alcohol was used by students of Utah State Industrial School (SIS), determine the knowledge these students had of alcohol and alcoholism, and compare the data of the Industrial School with data obtained from selected public high schools in Utah. Study results revealed a greater percentage of the SIS students had used alcoholic beverages and their first drinking experience occurred at an earlier age than for the high school students. Also, a greater percentage of the SIS students continued drinking after their first drinking experience. The percentage of SIS students having been intoxicated was higher with the SIS students having been intoxicated was higher with the SIS students repeating the practice more frequently. Analysis of the knowledge section pointed out the high school students were better informed regarding alcohol and alcoholism than were the SIS students.

Prior to the year 1913, there had been come schools at the Utah State Agricultural College that had had biological science, exact science, language and arts, and social science groups for the graduates to fill requirements in before they could graduate from these particular schools. However, it was not until the year 1913 that all of the schools, with the exception of the engineering school, were requred tomake the students meet these basic group requirements. It should be of importance to the physical education department to know whether or not the courses taken by physical education majros to fill group requirements are the courses that will likely do these students the most good in life-in-general and in their profession of physical education. Obviously any imformation along these lines should be of importance to the students themselves. The purpose of the present study is to determine the following: (1) the authorities viewpoints as to whether or not the physical education department should outline the physical education student's courses that he takes to fill group requirements; (2) the courses that the authorities think the physical education student should take to fill the group requirements; (3) the courses the physical education graduates took to fill the gorup requirements; (4) the extent the courses the physical education graduates took to fill the group requirements have helped them in (a) physical education and teaching, and (b) in life-in-general; (5) the courses which are available to use in filling group requirements that the physical education graduates think would have helped them most in (a) their profession of physical education and teaching, and (b) in life-in-general, had they taken them while in college.

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