Physical Education

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In 1922, Massachusetts state law required physical training be taught in public schools and the subject was accordingly introduced into the elementary levels in February, 1922. As with the other specialized topics – drawing, music and penmanship – the suburban schools were left to their own devices and had no benefit of the Supervisor of Physical Education, Frank A. Crozier, who was appointed to oversee the development of the course. Schools like the Green typically followed a modified version of the central school program of study, “although no supervision is given at the present time.” To help promote physical education, the Putnam P. T. A. in 1926 equipped the Green schoolyard with "apparatus for physical exercises."