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Show ROUGH AND TUMBLE FOR BOYS Tho death of n freshman In n class fracas at the University of Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania will set many nnxlous pnrcnts to worrying nbout tho perils their boys have to meet. Probably this -.'articular form of sport was better suited to tho tlmo when student groups wcro smaller. Tho life can be crushed out of a fellow in n Bcrlm-111 Bcrlm-111 ago of tho big classes of tho modern mod-ern collego, as U1I3 sad ovent proves. At the snmo tlmo tho ruing out from collego life or rough scrlmmng-os scrlmmng-os of this character will not mako boy life appreciably safer. The real perils Ho elsewhere. Hoys from earliest ago havo a most delightful heedlessness of tho dangers dan-gers of the world thoy llvo In. Thoy climb tn dizzy heights rejoicing In the tremors their mothers suffer. Af-tor Af-tor they havo broken n few arms or legs thoy begin to havo a moro Wholo somo respect for tho laws and forces by which they aro surrounded. But n boy nover feels qulto so happy hap-py as when ho is swimming out In tho tnlddlo of a lako or river whero there is Just a possible .chanco of getting drowned to glvo tho ndvon-turo ndvon-turo spice. A boy seems to need a certain amount of rough and tumblo and dan. gor In ordor to develop hardihood, otherwlso there is an lgnoblo fear In his character that may bo a terribly debilitating infiuenco later on. For every ono boy who Is killed nt rough scrimmages In college or In the Bhock of tho football melee, a hundred uro destroyed by corroding vices, nnd another hundred aro killed kill-ed by physical weaknesses. Tho boy who Is ruled out of rough play may dovolop heart dlscaso In tho hard runs of even so innocent looking a gamo as lawn tennis. Ho is still moro likely to suffer from defects duo to Inactlvo habits and lack of rough vigorous exorcise. It Is a perilous per-ilous thing to let a boy go Into rough sports and It mny bo a perilous thing to keep him out of them. |