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THE ORIGIN AND GROWTH OF THE NEBRASKA SCHOOL ACTIVITIES ASSOCIATION
Abstract
Dr. John Marvel, Dean of the College of Education, University of Wyoming, stated at a recent national convention of State High School Activities Board members:The school activity program was not our creation. It has been with schools ever since students were dismissed for their first recess and challenged each other to a race on horseback or on foot, sat down to a game of mumblety-peg, or engaged in a spelling contest.1He concluded his remarks by saying:The activity program was not created out of wedlock as some critics would like to think. You have witnessed efforts on the part of some educators and laymen to dwarf its growth, to deform its body, to over-activate its pituitary gland, or to give it a schizophrenic personality.2Although not all educators and laymen may accept the implications of this challenging statement, anyone who has given any thought to the place interscholastic activities should occupy in the total secondary school program has found it to be a perplexing problem. At least, since the turn of the century, educators have sought to direct and control extra-class activities as an adjunct to the prescribed course of study on the secondary level.
Subject Area
Educational administration
Recommended Citation
SORENSEN, HOWARD RYGAARD, "THE ORIGIN AND GROWTH OF THE NEBRASKA SCHOOL ACTIVITIES ASSOCIATION" (1967). ETD collection for University of Nebraska-Lincoln. AAI6715994.
https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/dissertations/AAI6715994