PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1966 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 132-135
Author(s):  
HARRY A. TOWSLEY
Keyword(s):  
Olympic Games ◽  
Ancient Greece ◽  
Children's Health ◽  
Children’S Health ◽  
Heart And Mind ◽  
The Olympic Games

IN Ancient Greece, the change of one generation of the Olympic games to the next was symbolized by the passing of a torch, the flame of which was never allowed to die. We have a ritual in our Academy wherein the president, when he retires, passes on a report of the accomplishments of his presidential year and the new president catches the torch and carries forward the flame in what I hope will be a never ending ascension of our traditions. My predecessors were men of dedication and experience in our profession, and they accounted for their stewardship in the final rite with words of grandeur and wisdom. Some of you have heard most, if not all, of the presidential addresses that have been given since our Society was founded in Detroit, 35 years ago. Knowing this, I approach this moment with some trepidation and with a humble spirit, but with the conviction that I must say the things to you that are in my heart and mind. Before I go further, I must acknowledge that my ascension to this highest honor that may come to any pediatrician came unexpectedly because of the passing of our friend and colleague, who had been nominated to serve this year. The passing of Harold Flanagan and Frank Douglass, your last president, was a sad loss to the Academy, for in their lives they practiced the precepts of the Academy and its founding principles. We sincerely memorialize their many contributions to the cause of children's health and their love of humanity.

scholarly journals Hero and Antihero: An Ethic and Aesthetic Reflection of the Sports

2018 ◽  
Vol 80 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-56
Author(s):  
Carlos Rey Perez
Keyword(s):  
Olympic Games ◽  
Ancient Greece ◽  
Human Growth ◽  
Common Point ◽  
Ethical Reflection ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
The Olympic Games

AbstractIn Ancient Greece, the figure of the hero was identified as a demigod, possessed of altruistic and virtuous deeds. When Pierre de Coubertin reinstated the Olympic Games, the athlete was personified as a modern hero. Its antithesis, the anti-hero, has more virtue that defects, no evil but he does not care on the means to achieve his goals. In the eyes of everyone involved in sports competition, these characters captivate and at the same time, create conflicts of ethics and aesthetics. The purpose of this paper is to perform an ethical reflection linked to principles that contribute for the human growth and accomplishment, as well as the aesthetic on the perception of the sensitive, reverberated by sensations and feelings emerging from athletes. Connecting the ethic with the aesthetic spheres, we could have in the sports a phenomenon walking toward a common point between moral and aesthetic, between the good and the beauty.

scholarly journals The Olympic Games of Ancient Greece

1908 ◽  
Vol 66 (1701supp) ◽  
pp. 88-89
Author(s):  
Watkish Lloyd
Keyword(s):  
Olympic Games ◽  
Ancient Greece ◽  
The Olympic Games

Olympics and International Sports Law Research Guide

2012 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 92-97 ◽  
Author(s):  
Esther Cho
Keyword(s):  
Olympic Games ◽  
Ancient Greece ◽  
Legal Aspects ◽  
Sports Law ◽  
World Cup ◽  
Fifa World Cup ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
Sporting Event ◽  
Olympic Movement ◽  
The Olympic Games

AbstractThe Olympic Games are the world's most recognised international sporting event alongside the FIFA World Cup. Started in ancient Greece, the Olympic Games were revived in modern times in 1896 and occur every four years. This article, by Esther Cho, discusses how to research the structure and legal aspects of the Olympic Movement. It also encompasses the general array of international sports law resources connected to the Olympic Movement.

scholarly journals Royalty and the Olympic movement

2018 ◽  
pp. 4-17
Author(s):  
Maria Bulatova ◽  
Valentyna Iermolova
Keyword(s):  
Roman Empire ◽  
Olympic Games ◽  
Ancient Greece ◽  
Winter Olympics ◽  
Active Involvement ◽  
Olympic Movement ◽  
History Of ◽  
Crown Prince ◽  
Xix Century ◽  
The Olympic Games

The Olympic Games of Ancient Greece had occupied a special place in the life of the Hellenes. The holding of the Olympics had a wide public resonance. The rulers of various polices actively supported these events and many of them were the participants and some the winners of the Games. Famous philosophers, writers and poets, architects and sculptors had the honor to present their works to spectators and judges at that athletic forum. During the heyday of the Roman Empire, which conquered ancient Greece, Roman emperors not only supported the holding of the Olympic Games, but also participated in Olympic competitions organized at four-year intervals and other Pan-Helenian Games. The process of the revival of the Olympic Games had been closely related to the activities of prominent thinkers, artists, actors, and musicians of the Renaissance, New Age, and Enlightenment. It is worth noting that the royalty did not stand aside from this process: the first Olympic Games of the Modern Era were held with the active involvement of the King of Greece George I, whereas Crown Prince Constantine assumed the presidency of the organizing committee of the Games. Since that time, many royalties from different countries have participated in the Olympic Games. For more than 120-year history of the Olympic Games, revived at the end of the XIX century, 31 representatives of royal families took part in Olympic competitions and won 11 Olympic medals: four gold, one silver and six bronze medals. Their interest in the Olympic movement is not limited to participation in the Olympics Games and the Winter Olympics. The history of the modern Olympic movement includes the names of 14 representatives of the Royalty who were given the honor to declare the Olympic Games open; 34 ones in different years were the members of the International Olympic Committee; five monarchs with special merits in the development of the International Olympic Movement and promoting Olympic values are among the honorary members of the IOC. The article describes briefly this interesting story of the Olympic Games of antiquity and modernity, in which royalty took part. Keywords: Olympic Games, royalty

scholarly journals Editorial. Architectural competitions I - Exploring the phenomenon of competing in architecture and urban design

2013 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonas E Andersson ◽  
Magnus Rönn ◽  
Leif Östman
Keyword(s):  
Urban Design ◽  
Olympic Games ◽  
Ancient Greece ◽  
Creative Work ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Architectural Competitions ◽  
The Olympic Games

The combination of realising buildings with such architectural care that they become high-quality architecture and the momentum of introducing a competitive phase in this creative work may strike most people as odd. However, the phenomenon dates back to the Olympic Games of Ancient Greece, where the harmony between aesthetics and architectural realisation was assessed in a public voting process.

scholarly journals Role of Education Assessment for Education Management

2020 ◽  
pp. 27-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Aitzhanov
Keyword(s):  
Learning Process ◽  
Olympic Games ◽  
Ancient Greece ◽  
Assessment For Learning ◽  
Work History ◽  
Education Assessment ◽  
Education Management ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Olympic Games

The author studied the role of education assessment for education management. Humanity was particularly revered by oratorical people who were educated at any age. In ancient Greece, during the Olympic Games, in addition to sports competitions, scholars and poets also publicized their works. According to legend, Herodotus' work "History" was introduced to the public during the Olympics and spread throughout the country. Each country is proud of its genius. "Education which equates people with people", stated Auezov in his speech, a Kazakhstani writer. Assessment is important in the classroom at school every day. Assessment for learning is a process of developing and interpreting information that students and their teachers use to determine where they are in the learning process, in what direction they need to develop and how to reach the desired level. Keywords: analysis, generalization, evaluation, methodological level.

Hailing a Racial Kinship

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erika Fischer-Lichte
Keyword(s):  
Olympic Games ◽  
Ancient Greece ◽  
Third Reich ◽  
Nazi Germany ◽  
The Third ◽  
Paradoxical Phenomenon ◽  
The Third Reich ◽  
Racial Kinship ◽  
The Olympic Games

The fifth chapter, ‘Hailing a Racial Kinship: Performances of Greek Tragedies during the Third Reich’, interprets the Olympic Games in Berlin (1936) and Lothar Müthel’s production of the Oresteia as part of it as the attempt to present Nazi Germany as the genuine heir of ancient Greece. It also discusses the seemingly paradoxical phenomenon that, during the war until the closing-down of all theatres in September 1944, 16 productions of Antigone were mounted with a total of 150 performances. Taking Karl Heinz Stroux’s 1940 production at the Staatliches Schauspielhaus Berlin as an example, the author discusses whether performances of Greek tragedies in times of war were meant and able to divert the Bildungsbürger from the ongoing atrocities and to reconcile them with the Nazis, or whether they provided a forum for resistance.

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