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ties should increase in popularity. Sports with a good recreational carry over,
away from the cities and closer to nature, are due for more emphasis. Examples
are archery, hunting, canoeing, rifle shooting, fly casting, woodcraft, and the
like. Many of these sports are adapted to competition. Others can be encouraged
through point systems.

Another trend is toward co-recreation. Much of the present attitude toward
isolation of boys and girls in play carries back to separation of the sexes in
all education. To a large extent this is as it should be. The two sexes do not
seek entirely the same ends in education, but after school they will not be
isolated. Recreational training that will enable them to play together helps the
individual to fit in socially. The tennis court, swimming pool, golf course, the
archery range, and the home recreation room with its table tennis, billiards, and
other games are a few examples of sports that make for better a socially
and encourage ae participation of the family group.

Still another tendency is a greater emphasis on safety. The public conscience
is increasingly aware of the need for conservation of these most vital of our
resources, human life and health. This is as it should be. Both patriotism and
common humanity demand it. Further this is coming to be a practical necessity
because,to quote a classic:

"Babies are strangely out of style

You may travel the country for many a mile
Without the light of a baby smile

bees with the Dutch or Irish."

And even the Dutch and the Irish are falling down of late. Moreover, respect
for human personality demands such consideration as we can give to human welfare.
In sports this involves a number of points. The playing environment must be as
safe as may be. Sanitation must be enforced, dangerous obstructions removed. In
short, the hazards to health, life and limb must be removed. Safe playing equip-
ment must be provided. Preliminary medical examination will keep a check on weak
hearts, tendency to hernia, incipient disease and the like. Prompt first aid and
medical treatment if necessary must be available. The dangers of insufficient
warm up and of exhaustion must be guarded against. Great progress has already been
made in this field. Much remains to be done. ~

The fact that relaxation and recreation are coming to the fore in discussion
concerning the use of leisure time will do much to promote intramurals in the
school program, because these sports are recreational in character. The close
relation of play to mental hygiene and the promotion of mental health lend further
significance to intramural sports.

Another point to consider is the relative importance of team and individual
sports in the total program offered. Team sports are useful in teaching co-
operation and good sportsmanship. They are an important laboratory for citizen-
ship. The individual sports, generally speaking, carry over better for recreational
use after school days are over. Two adjustments in present practice that will be
beneficial are to get girls participating more in team games; and to get boys'
varsity players to learn more of individual recreational sports for use in later
life. Point systems encourage the recreational sports for use in later life.
Point systems encourage the recreational sports which may be less strictly com-
petitive, and as such are good. They involve considerable bookkeeping and are
therefore something of a headache to administer. While they are probably not so
passe as some physical educators believe, this extra trouble in administration
does hold down their popularity.