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Classes, which is almost as effective as having smaller classes.

(b) There should be adequete bathing facilities for all, even in the
elementary schools. Exercise which produces profuse perspiration should be
done in uniform, and should be followed by a bath.

(c) Phere must be enough teachers to do this work well, to organize in-
tramural activities, and to do the necessary clerical work connected with
the administration of such a scheme.

(d) There should be a really adequate medical service, both for examina-
tions and for remedial stunt health work. This is available in very few
school systems today.

In most schools in this country, we fall short of the above, The
attempt should not be to just adapt to conditions, but to attain to the ideal.
Thirty years ago, few schools had adequate laboratories for science teaching.
Persistent propagande on the part of intelligent educators secured it. The
same must be done for physical education. Not only must facilities be given,
but more time. The minimum should be five hours a week.

If the material for physical education be selected according to the above
ten criteria, it would seem that a few things should stand out clearly in
our minds: .

1. The educational objectives can be best accomplished for both sexes
by using the more highly organized hunting and fighting games, competitive
athletics, some of the "stunt" type of activities, and ~ especially with
girls - natural dancing. These should be the types of activities
Which would directly lead to the accomplishment of the objectives in the
most effective manner, if properly presented by the teacher and mastered by
the student. In every case, the teacher should proceed from the objectives
to be accomplished to the methods to be used to accomplish them.

2e All students are not equally skillful, and most are not skillful
enough to utilize these activities advantageously, they must be led up to
it gradually. This should be done by carefully grading the students and
the activities, and by arranging, the teaching material in such a manner
that every day's work legds to the next. For example, if students are not
skilled cnough in basketball to use it advantageously as an educational
device, other games or contests containing the elements of basketball
should be taught. These may be relays containing passing, shooting, or
dribbling as part of the race, or they may be simpler games containing
these elements, with less physical contact, and giving the player time to
make his reactions = for much poor basketball is due to too hurried thinking.
Then there may be a teaching of the fundamentals in a type of imitative
calisthenics, a sort of mass coaching, as it were, followed by work on
these elements in squads. The same sort of thing to a lesser degree can be
done for track and field athletics. The cloments first taught en masse, and
then practiced in squads for form, not for performance, and finally used in
competition. The same principle can be used for many other activities. At
present, most men are taught these activities by the same technique one
uses to teach a pup to swim ~ throw him in; if he swims fairly well,
give him more practice. If he drowns, pass him up as hopeless, and let
it go at that!