Teaching elementary school subjects . Swedish folk-dances are much enjoyed in jNIinneapoIis. Prospective teachers learning to play at a normal school in Pennsylvania PHYSICAL EDUCATION 435 Those who have attended an old-fashioned religious re-vival know the supremely important part that rhythm in theform of music, poetry, the cadences and rhythmic flow ofspeech, and even the more or less conscious rhythmic motionsplay in swaying the emotions. The effect of poetry is duelargely to rhythm, whether it be doggerel, Virgil representinga cavalry charge, or Kiplings majestic Recessional. Thewar-dance
Teaching elementary school subjects . Swedish folk-dances are much enjoyed in jNIinneapoIis. Prospective teachers learning to play at a normal school in Pennsylvania PHYSICAL EDUCATION 435 Those who have attended an old-fashioned religious re-vival know the supremely important part that rhythm in theform of music, poetry, the cadences and rhythmic flow ofspeech, and even the more or less conscious rhythmic motionsplay in swaying the emotions. The effect of poetry is duelargely to rhythm, whether it be doggerel, Virgil representinga cavalry charge, or Kiplings majestic Recessional. Thewar-dances of savages, the occupation-dances of the peas-antry, the love-dances of the East, all show how fundamentalis this sense of rhythm, and how early in race history it istranslated into muscular activity. Dancing is undoubtedlynext to the oldest form of gymnastics, the oldest being thepractice of acts of war. Probably the rhythmical march ofthe processional is directly descendent from the old Greekdances, and these probably had the remotest of origins. Physical education is valuable, not m
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