know to observing teachers and administrators who were once students them-
selves. Consequently, against the fear of wear and tear of work of our
predecessors, we have entered into an era of glorified worship of recreation,
play, physical exercise, leisure, and loafing. Our generation is addicted to
sports as our ancestors were addicted to work. This is a shift from one excess
to another. But as from the excesses of the work-complex emerged the dismal
science of economics and technology, so a osteues of physical education may
evolve from over-indulgence in recreation, sports, leisure time activities,

and health education.

(2) Outdoors Complex. While youth has turned his face towards the
joy-complex, the intensified system of struggle for existence has forced people
into the factories and the shops. No longer the erstwhile worker earns his
living out in the open; the open air market place now has a roofs; commerce and
industry: alike have herded the independent workers together within colossal
buildings. The pioneers’ worked out of doors; their descendents earn their
living indoors. Our ancestors went indoors on Sundays having been outdoors
for six days; we rush outdoors on the same day and move in doors during the
rest of the week. The effect of this change in social behavior has inten-
sified the significance of the outside in modern times. Unquestionably
the indoorism imposed by our culture violates man's biological nature.
Indoorism insists on the work-complex, and outdoorism impels the accentuation
of the recreational activities. Because of the urge for outdoorism many of
the activities indulged in are overexertions. This trend to turn the insiders
out for leisure, health, and recreation as a remedial balance in our changing
social conditions draws the attention of the physical educationist from the

physical to the social aspects of his field of activities.