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Show EXPERT ON MIND PUTS KIS OKEH UPON DANCING BOSTON, Jan. 22 Dancing is an Instinct which Is very" much bettor expressed than suppressed suld Professor C. H. Wllin. head of the department of pyschoiogy at Boston university, in a defense of natural pleasure today. "Dancing serves a useful social end." he added. "it gives married mar-ried people the opportunity to associate as-sociate with persons of the opposite oppos-ite sex under conventional circumstances, circum-stances, and it helps uphold conventional con-ventional society. Dancing is an Instinct like eating, fighting and mating." "Modern dancing is partly sensual, partly an expression of love for rhythm and partly much needed exercise, "All of these functions are natural. nat-ural. "Dancing has not been abolished abol-ished by the blue law reformers yet, and it Is one of tho few natural pleasures left "The over-emphasis that is sometimes placed on dancing is the result of Inhibitions. "Unless normal Instincts get as expression or have some compensation compen-sation they are apt to burst out in unusual forms. "For Instance, all women have the maternal instinct and the bachelor woman, her instinct unsatisfied un-satisfied and repressed, compensates com-pensates by taking 1 passionate interest ln animals. or else sho becomes a champion of feminism." femin-ism." BOSTON, Jan. 2 2. "Very few Americana can hear straight or see straighl. It Is striking how incompetent they are in these directions." di-rections." said Charles V. Eliot, prealqeni . merltua of Harvard university, ai a conference of educators edu-cators today. Ho pleaded for a radical transformation of the educational system to Obliterate "herd impulse s" and to release Individuality. In-dividuality. "There is an extraordinary amount of credulity In the American people In fixing rumOTS and news." he declared. "It is a new development, highly unpromising. un-promising. We are more and more becomlngi subjects of what I may call "herd, impulses,' gregarious - impulses, doinmon emotions." He s aid dive!cal training was the most important movement of the day 'v "We are leading hasty, busy, too busy live." he continued. "It Is a great, threatening blight, II threatens not Tonly the mental health, but thc physical health. |