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Indoor and Outdoor Gymnastic Games

of life, obedience to which prepares for the serious occupations of maturity. As a generator and conservator of nervous energy it surpasses all other forms of exercise. As a character builder it produces strength and positiveness of will. It is especially needed in the education of the city poor. Play should follow deep-seated and well-defined hereditary tendencies of the human species. Not only in games, but what may be termed in distinction, play should be utilized.