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College, Cozens of Los Angeles, and Brace of Texas who have already done con-
siderable research along this line.

As I see it, the big part of the work of the Institute would be the
actual program for conditioning and improving the physical fitness of those
who pass the original health examination. Obviously those who are rated as
Class A would need some training to develop their highest potentialities along
the line of physical fitness, Many of our football players, for example,
would need training in the more skillful use of the body such as could be se-
cured by other forms of games, aquatic activities, apparatus work in the gym-
nasium, etc.

The group whom we might call Class B, or those not able to pass the
more vigorous activities, would definitely need a program of physical educa-
tion of an all-round type. The findings of their health or medical examina-
tions and their physical fitness score would determine their program of ac-
tivities. This group would need to be taught some of the more rugged types
of game activities which were within their capacities and at the same time
given work to improve their bodily skills. A definite biological improvement
and with it the development of an appreciation for physical fitness, which
comes only to those who have the physique and skills necessary for the per-
formance of some of the more vigorous activities found in a good program of
physical education, would be the goal for Group B.

Obviously those in groups below C and D need detiathe coevestive
work in an attempt to raise their status of physical fitness just as we would
attempt to raise the status of physical fitness of Group B to that of Group A.
In Group C would be found those who are not too well nourished and those who
are too well nourished, as well as those with postural defects which might be
amenable to correction or at least improvement by prescribed exercises. This

would be somewhat in the line of the work which we did in the Reconstruction