4

Athletics

Four o'clock, the gym, the music and
the games! What a relief after a forenoon
of light psychology, heavy arithmetic,
real geography, excursions in imagination
torturing well disposed youngsters who
are kind an innocent enough to be
practised upon, and then a rally at the
dining hall for ginger snaps, and an
afternoon spent in deep study. At four
one lets the head rest and works the feet
To be sure it is quite as easy to decide
how develop an individual self to the
point of doing, "The Irish washer wom-
an" really gracefully, but the later comes
as a change.

There's "Dance to your Daddy" "The
"Mountain Dance, I see you", the "jigs"
and some others. There's not much
of the three R's in any of them unless
one counts beats for 'rithmetic, con-
strues expressions of dismay or other-
wise for reading and traces tips of
toes for writing. But there is lots of
wholesomeness, and life and health in
it and "Anderson and Henderson, and
Peterson, and me all all enjoy it.

On Tuesday and Thursday after-
noons we forget our dignified positions,
don gym suits and enjoy a good hours
frolic playing basket-ball.