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eviewed and gave the students not only an insight into many problems
and how they were being solved or envisaged in various countries,
but also an incentive to elaborate for themselves how the various matters
concerning Sport and competitive athletics could be approached
to the benefit of the Olympic Philosophy and Spirit and their objectives.
THE LATE PROF. CARL DIEM
The Int. Olympic Academy laments the irreparable loss of Prof.
Carl Diem, the kindly, genial and erudite Principal of the Cologne Sporthochschule
who died in December 1962. In the Summer Session of that
year Prof. Diem had been an inspiration to the Academy,to the foundation
and function of which he had so actively contributed. Although
in his eightieth year his energy during the 1962 Session had put many
of the younger members to shame. During the inaugural meeting of the
1963 Session the Academy's President, Mr. John Kesteas, not only
asked all present to stand in silence in memory of this great friend, but
proposed that at all lectures an empty chair should be placed among
the assisting lecturers in recognition of the fact that his spirit would be
eternally with the Academy.
OLD AND NEW LECTURERS
Among the lecturers who had attended previous Sessions were
Mon. Paul Vialar, President of the Sports Writers of France, who chose
new subjects for his two lectures. Also Dr. Otto Misangyi of Switzerland
who this year dealt with a new subject which opened new horizons
of outlook in dealing with the everyday questions affecting Sport.
He dealt with the sociological aspect resulting from an enquiry at Swiss
student level, which surely will be followed by other countries in
different aspects and forms. Mr. Cleanthis Palaeologos also gave a lecture,
not this time on the history of the Ancient Olympic Games but on the
actual events of the ancient Games. Mr. Werner Korbs who had attended
the 1961 Session visited the Academy this year as the new Principal
of the Cologne Sporthochschule and gave a talk which was not merely
of Academic interest as might have been gathered from its title, but
threw a spotlight on the ancient Greek outlook on the role of Sport
in education, giving food for thought on present day applications. His
talk dealt with revelations from Egyptian papyri of the third and second
centuries B.C.
The Curator, Mr. Otto Szymiczek, gave an address which in a sense
was a follow up on his last year's talk, an obverse aspect of the needs
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