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Show VALUE OF GYMNASIUM I TRAINING. ' I j That tbo American college student? ore growing stronger as a result of physical education seems to be provv by the recent Investigations made by Dr. McKenzle of the I'nlyerslty 0f Pennsylvania and Dr, Horn of Yale. Tho latest statistics. 1909, show that over 00 per cent of the seventy threo leading American colleges anu ui.lverslties require physical educa. I tiou from the freshmen oar, 78 per! cent require It from freshmen and ' f ( phomores, 110 per cent require fiom the three lower classes and 12 per cent from all four classes. , According to the American Educa- ! tlonal Review Dr. Born says that "a 1 study of th record kept of the weighu J and measurements not only demonstrates demon-strates that there has been an in- ' crease In the growth power of the ! students, but only corroborates th assertion that the youth of the pres ' ent day are better developed pbyBl- I cully than those of past generation. ! "The Increase In weight of the typl- I al Individual of the football group ' is unusually uraall. Many hypotheses I might bo advanced In explanation of j this fact, but after a careful study .f this slight growth Increment we have ' concluded that tho football typn rp- ' tesents a group of young men of superior su-perior physical endowment and vitality vital-ity who reach that point where the growth power practically disappears mch earlier than the average, usual.'y during their preparatory school courso. In such cases there is aa inherent tendency to a more rapid development, de-velopment, supplemented by an ex traurdlnary capacity for physical work. "The baseball and crew candidate nhow a moro decided change, for In theso groups we find a few men cf the football typo, but moi'o of those Individuals who follow the general Inw of development. In th remaining remain-ing uronps vvj nolo larger increases, for hero wo corao In contact with the average student. "Our attention la called to tho exceedingly ex-ceedingly binall Increase lu lung capacity ca-pacity of the track athlete, only twenty twen-ty cubic Inches. This Is not unusual, however, for we havo found that In n.nny track athletes, especially the k-ng-dlstance and cross-country run-; run-; ners, the lung capacity was only nver-i nver-i age, and sraeflnvs blow normal. ' "KYom our observations we bellev ! that in this type of athlete the breath-j breath-j Jpg must bo shallow and confined to the lower parts of the lungs , tho bases, In order that the equilibrium I between the production of the wa?te ! matter In the muscles and Ita elln.-' elln.-' hmtlon from thi blood through th lungs may be quickly re-established, s. ! condition called 'second wind.' and j always so necoMary 'o tb runner." |