But the crowd reaction was even more significant. Experience proves that ind
hysteria of overwrought spectators, denied the player's outlets in action, to
release and relieve tho pressure, is more difficult to restrain within socially
acceptable bounds than is the fighting intensity of the participant. But this
play of super-sportsmanship on the floor ~- was its spiritual contagion due to shock?
Were the gallerics suddenly recalled from their frenzy of excitement, restored to
calm in which something fine and generous within them might come to the surface
again? Hardly that. Isn't it more probable that as they were absorbed in the play
on the floor, tensed and participant in the ebb and flow of the battle there, they
were carried along to be participant also in the player's gesture of self denial?
His play, so closely were they following the game, had something of themselves in
it; its generosity was a subtle compliment to their own sympathetically responding
sense of rectitude, a sacrifice of self interest in loyalty to a sporting ideal.
Wasn't the spiritual affinity in the incident something of that nature? Whatever
the psychology of it, wasn't it a case of transfer - an abstract ideal, projecting
itself, against resistance, into dynamic action? Wasn't it principle, put to work
in application? And like evory other case of transfer that we see in life itself,
but which we still fail to get in education, like the phobia that induces a general
cowardice, the patriotic or maternal sentiment that engenders an unwonted courage,
the religious conviction that transforms a life, wasn't the significant vitalizing
factor in both player and spectator the emotional intensity which was involved?

Itve said enough on this theme - doubtless you are tired of it. Probably I'm
overstating it in my desire to make it graphic. As I leave it, let me summarize
in these terms. We all agree that we need better integrating of all the forces in
the individual. That is one of the most fundamental of our life necds. The re-
search of its own investigators admits that the present curriculum, taught under

present motivations, still fails to get in full measure such integration. It isn't

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