Show the physical training of hoy doys boys of today have great advantages in their physical training over those ot of even ten years ago it is easily within tho the remembrance mem brance of of us who have not been out ot of college so very long how the mere mention of football at home brought down a storm of parental wrath while un uny b relenting prohibition toll LA us back to school the game was then an enigma a and the newspapers added horror to the mystery by printing their accounts of matches in a manner calculated to chill the blood of any well regulated household gradually as the ions bons induced their parents to view the aport themselves the prejudice wore away the game finds favor in schools from maine alaine to Call california fomia and the result Is a generation of lads gro growing wing up whose physical beauty and healthful condition con ditton put us of the last generation to shame our very sixteen year old stripling P can outrun outride and us give us points on football baseball and tennis and happily devoid of that sickly pallor peculiar to the student of our day knows quite as much with the ruddy glow of health in his cheeks and arid yet there are to be found some few that do not favor athletics tor for boyst the glorious influence for good that sports have on the general education and welfare of both boys and girls has ling not begun to be appreciated when I 1 see sw a boy who does not take hla his play hour I 1 regard him with as much disquiet ns n s the man who n never ever has a kind word for any one play Is as necessary to the boys and girls na as water la is to a plant without it the growth of the one is restricted and unhealthful while the other having hav ing fewer resources dies olles harpers young people |