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Show OUTDOOR, SPORTS GOOD FOR, THE SOUTi. When the Rev. Percy Stlckney Grant prescribed compulsory physical training train-ing for the uplifting of the moral character char-acter of children of the New York East Side, in his address last week beforo tho League of Political Education, he struck the keynote to the whole situation. situa-tion. If a law could be enacted making a regular course of physical training in the public schools obligatory a tremendous tremen-dous move In tho direction of uplifting the poorer classes would be made. Dr. Grant has had peculiar advantage for studying the condition of the children of the slums and the tenements, and, being an athlete himself and a man of unusunl mentality and' erudition, his remarks have great value. In part he said: '"Ten years after I left college there were 150 men In Harvard stronger than' any man In my class. This was due entirely to the Interest wrought In the athletic and gymnasium work, and it Is these men with strong, perfect bodies who arc making the leading mental and moral powers of our country today. The morality of the University of Pennsylvania Penn-sylvania has risen in a remarkable manner during the last ten years, I have this from a number of the doctors at the university. Tills Is owing to the adoption of athletics among students. I find that this Increase In morality exists ex-ists at Harvard, Yale and other universities univer-sities where much attention is given to the physical training." Dr. Grant might have said that It was true ut all tho great schools and unl-l unl-l vereltles throughout the United States, j Athletics are Improving tho moral and mental condition of the whole Anglo-Saxon Anglo-Saxon race, and he who decries them or would banish them from school life, us a few of our philosophical professors declare they would, Is an enemy of health and good morals. Illustrated Sporting News. |