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Competitive Athletics in Schools

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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · May 4, 1915

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 42, No. 18.

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Competitive Athletics in Schools

The Journal of the American Medical Association makes frequent protests against the widespread tendency in the United States toward the extension of competitive athletics in schools. The Journal, while advocating proper physical exercise and physical development, says that “competitive athletics is attended with an undue sacrifice of time at the expense of the intellectual pursuits.” And everybody should say “Amen” to the suggestion of the Journal, and second its efforts in this good work.