Howard University - Bison Yearbook (Washington, DC)

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Ak.kk.non r. Jackson DirtN'tor bc Department of public ibcaltl) The immediate purpose of the Department of Public Health is to make a careful study and analysis of the student’s health, with the idea of guarding, guiding and maintaining the same to the end that physical efficiency and mental efficiency may be so correlated as to influence the scholastic and after-life of our students. A complete physical examination is given every student each year upon his entrance to the undergraduate college of the University, and for those who are abnormal, an attempt—in so far as is possible with a somewhat limited staff—is made to correct such abnormalities and so direct the life and habits of the student that he may more thoroughly realize the aims and ambitions which have brought him to us. The Clark Hall Clinic, held daily in the gymnasium, conducts a health and welfare sen-ice which strives to answer not only the health needs of the student, but also the many perplexing social problems which creep into his life. A regular course of lectures dealing with personal hygiene and open to all first year students, tends to effect a closer and more practical understanding of this department’s relation to the student and university life. This deparment attempts (in a too-limited way) to serve as a clearing house for facts, statistics, data, and advice regarding the larger health problem of the 12,000,000 Negroes of this country. The limitations in this field of work are all too embarrassing and must remain so until we are sufficiently endowed to help answer this tremendous and all-consuming American question. S525SSS

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 r ons F,. Vatki»x Dlrwtor £ljc Department of JDfiPsital €bucafion The Department of Physical Education finds itself better able to correlate its program with that «»f the Department of Public Health than ever before. The new gymnasium and athletic field afford physical equipment for this work. All students of the University are privileged to pursue rhe physical education course, which includes lectures in hygiene; practical, educational and recreational gymnastics and athletics; and swimming. All of these activities are conducted under sanitary conditions, by an expert teaching personnel. In addition to this, students are encouraged to follow a prescription of work calculated to correct any physical abnormalities. Gratifying results have been obtained in a large number of cases of flat feet, bad digestion. over-weight and under-weight complaints. Improvement in academic scholarship is also revealed in a great many cases where students have improved their physical conditions in the gymnasium. A real program of intra-mural athletics has been inaugurated. Some twenty basketball teams have been organized and are playing a definite schedule with increasing enthusiasm. Also several indoor track meets have been held with gratifying results. It is the plan of the department to develop all sports along this line.