Miss Byrn Miss Bell Miss Byrn Miss Bell Miss Byrn Miss Bell onan Yes, Virginia, that is a very fair criticism of my statement. But it is my point that in an average class of thirty girls, we assunc, be- compo of our natural intorest in the activity, that all thirty of the mombers of that class are interested in developing a game of tennis to the point where they could win the city championship, and I firmly believe that that assumption is not truce Most girls are eware of their individual limitations and they are not interested in gaining the pore fection of the professional in tho slills they elect to take. Many of those girls just want to have something to do where they can be out of doorse They like the fecl of the sun, the vigorous exercise that leaves them pleasantly tired, the comradeship of perhaps just another dub phayere Porhaps they just like the appearance they make in these fetching now sports costumes, but if one is seen wearing a natty new riding habit, itts appropriate to be scen on a horse now and then to avoid being ludicrouse It goes without saying that it's not much of & problem to meunt a horse, - it's staying on that requires the know ledge of a few necessary techniques. I'm all for dducating as many dubs as possible - regardless of the source of inspiration. For once you establish the habit of activity, the desire to perfect that activity Will come in duc time. No one wants to romain a dube I know a fow of my friends in high school loathed the hours they were foreed to spend in the gymnasium, simply because their efforts always resulted in a performance below the average of the class and their shortcomings were alvmys obvious. You can take a French cxamination or one in mathomatics and fail in it and no one kmows the differenco, but you go to a class in physical education and if you can't stand on your head when the rest of the class can, or you can't remember fast enough which foot goes where in a tap dance = you have to advertise your . vhysical stupidity to the whole classe You may be stuck with a math problom, but you can retire to work on that privately in your ow retreat and no one's the wisere Exactly, Virginia, We need to avoid having students leaving our classes with a fecling of failure and defcat. To enjoy a game we don't have to win every game we playe In order to enjoy doing tap dancing we don't havo to dance as well as Fred Astairee I doubt that Babo Ruth exper- ionces half the thrill you feel when you hit that occasional home rune We have the chance to give the yowmg yeople with whom we work some of the best armunition for successful, well balanced living that can be had and we make the hour they spend in our classroom so unpleasant with ugly associations of failure that wo defeat ourselves and perhaps do the student immeasurable harm by discouraging any future impulse to explore hew fields of activity. When you observed the work being done in the tap dancing class the other day, Virginia, I'm sure you couldn't have failed to notice one young man in the class - the one who always appsars to be doing solo worke Yes, I remember him. I think I have not seen anyone in a long time who appeared to be so thoroughly enjoying himself. Did you, in the entire period of activity, sec him execute one single step perfectly and in tine with the music? No, I can't say that I dide