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New York/Monterey CA: Pleiades Publications. Near Fine in Good+ dj. c.1949. First Edition. Hardcover. (price-clipped) [jacket worn, with several tears, soiling on back cover]. Pity the poor author -- he set out to simply write a biography of his beloved professor Ellwood Patterson Cubberly, first dean of the School of Education at Stanford, "for over fifty years devoted to American public education to the exclusion of all else save his devoted wife." In the process of research, however, he smelled something rotten, and upon further investigation discovered nothing less than what he termed "a mortal defect in the body-politic of North America." So instead he decided to write a history of Stanford University itself, to expose "the 'social errors' and wilful irresponsibilities of (chiefly) school and 'higher education' pedagogues -- i.e., professors and executive officers. It is aimed at the rescue of U.S.A. schools and colleges from amoral and short-…
Read More Physical Capacity Tests: Notes on Testing Techniques and the Significance of Tests by Rogers, Frederick Rand - 1931
by Rogers, Frederick Rand
Physical Capacity Tests: Notes on Testing Techniques and the Significance of Tests
by Rogers, Frederick Rand
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- good
- Hardcover
A.S. Barnes and Company, 1931. Hard Cover. Good/Good. Boards rubbed, top edge of jacket stained, large chip of jacket missing along bottom, pages toned, penciled marks and name on front endpaper. Good. 1931 Hard Cover. viii, 50 pp. "ACCURACY IN TESTING TECHNIQUES: Preface; General Suggestions; Specific procedures: Spirometer tests, Manuometer tests, Back and leg dynamometer tests, Push-up tests (boys), Pull-up tests (boys); Push-up tests (girls), Pull-up tests (girls); THE SIGNIFICANCE OF PHYSICAL CAPACITY TESTS: As measures of the physical educator's tools; As measures of physical fitness; As measures of physical activity habits; As measures of endurance; As indices of general systemic condition; As measures of power to carry academic burdens; As measures of individual progress and educational efficiency; As measures of unstable conditions; Cautions; SUPPLEMENT: Supplementary materials; Supplementary instructions, and norm charts; Some Average Scores; Facsimiles of norm charts and record cards.
- Bookseller Yesterday's Muse Books (US)
- Format/Binding Hard Cover
- Book Condition Used - Good
- Jacket Condition Good
- Quantity Available 1
- Binding Hardcover
- Publisher A.S. Barnes and Company
- Date Published 1931
- Keywords PHYSICAL CAPACITY TESTS TESTING EDUCATION FITNESS HEALTH EXERCISE TECHNIQUES FREDERICK RAND ROGERS SPORTS
- X weight 8 oz