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LETTERS TO THE EDITORS A PROTEST The Bethany Presbyterian Church 4112 North Verde Street The Outlook Company, 381 Fourth Avenue, New York City, N. Y. Gentlemen: My subscription to The Outlook magazine will soon expire. I want you to place a "stop" order after my name on your books, discontinuing the subscription when expiration is up. Dr. I am doing this as a protest against the articles written by Dr. Lyman Abbott on the subject of Evolution. Abbott misrepresents, and I am inclined to think willfully misrepresents, the theory of evolution. His articles are unsound, unsafe, and not true to God or the Word of God. I cannot afford to have such a magazine as this come into a home where there are young men. It would be sin enough for him to teach the evolution theory; but when he confuses that theory with the natural growth in nature, he is either ignorant of what he writes about or else deliberately confuses the subject for the purpose of making it appear plausible. I am sincerely yours, I ROBERT ASA SMITH. INTERCOLLEGIATE T may seem presumptuous for a Middle Western professor to attempt to reply to President Meiklejohn's wellintentioned article on intercollegiate athletics in The Outlook of March 8, yet I cannot refrain. His attitude toward disclosed by intercollegiate sports as this article is so typical of New England and of the section east of the Alleghanies that it needs a reply from some one outside this select district. For the worthy President of Amherst to advocate a return to the primeval lays of undergraduate control of intercollegiate sports is as sensible as for King Arthur to have proposed a change from the evils of the jousts and tourneys of mediævalism back to the barbarous practices and chaotic conditions of the lark ages. At this time, when it has become so apparent that some change is mperative, would it not be wiser to take forward, rather than a backward, step? Surely it cannot be so easily forgotten hat the very system of graduate control with which we now find so much fault was called into being because of the excesses, misunderstandings, bickerings, vrangles, scandals, and intercollegiate uptures which were characteristic of ndergraduate management. sible that we can now seriously consider return to those conditions? Is it pos In spite of President Meiklejohn's ssertion that the colleges "thereupon ook over the management of those ports to keep them within bounds," I want to urge that the colleges have with few exceptions never assumed the actual control of and responsibility for their intercollegiate sports. By a great majority they have fooled themselves into believing that the group of "outsiders" now in charge is actually college control, when it is nothing of the kind. For the creation of this group of outsiders the Amherst President honestly places the responsibility upon the colleges. After many years of connection with intercollegiate sports, I can heartily agree that they should be "played by undergraduates," "coached by undergraduates," if need be, but I never can agree that they should be managed by undergraduates. The next step in the evolution of intercollegiate sports, one which has already been taken in a few institutions, is for the college to assume actual control. Wise direction of these great character-building interests is shown to be imperative by the recent intercollegiate athletic scandals. "Outsiders" or hirelings are actually playing our games in too many of our great institutions which are athletically prominent. Surely student management would only make this bad matter worse. What is needed, then, is entire direction of intercollegiate athletics as a legitimate part of the educational job that the college is undertaking. The utilization of these great interests of youth and their direc A tion to the achievement of noble ends has been too long ignored. Here lies the real crux of the matter. Is the job of the college merely academic education or the development of men of power, men of ideals, men of noble inspiration as well as of intellectual keenness and breadth of culture? College authorities, especially those of the East, have indeed "foozled our attempt to control and direct these games." But to give them "their freedom," as President Meiklejohn proposes, will be a complete loss of the ball. If only Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, or even Amherst, Williams, and Wesleyan, "call a conference and announce the scrapping of boards of control," it will be a great day for intercollegiate sport and for the youth of America. But for such control they must substitute a wiser and more beneficent control, that of the college itself through its department of physical education. Alas! there is not one Eastern college president or faculty that dares take that step! What is needed is not suppression but direction, not retrogression but progression, not indifIn ference and neglect but utilization. the last analysis, what is needed is straight college control without the domination of alumni, be that through "boards of control" or through "undergraduate management." C. W. SAVAGE, Professor of Physical Education Warner Gymnasium (for Men) FROM MR. TAYLOR'S MAIL BAG MONG the two hundred lettersand more-received by Mr. C. K. Taylor in consequence of the publication of his article on "The Great Under-Weight Delusion," in The Outlook for March 15, were the following: Let me congratulate you on the good common sense and straightforward reasoning which characterize your article on "Under-Weight" in The Outlook for March 15. JOHN D. BLAKE, M.D., Assistant Professor Surgery, Harvard Medical School. I have found unusual interest in your article "The Great Under-Weight Delusion" in The Outlook. The problem has surely been approached from the right angle by you, and will surely find favor by all persons concerned with school inspection. N. H. KINGSLEY, Supervising Principal, La Farge, Wisconsin. While in the employ of the Board of Education here, it so happened that I had the medical supervision of an openair class for under-weight children, and, while it was a fact that many of the children in the public schools in that district were under-nourished, underweight, and pretubercular, it was also a fact that there were many children listed by well-meaning teachers, principals, and nurses for admittance into this open-air class with whom there was nothing under the sun the matter, but they were "under average weight." They belonged to your slender type, and the only result of intensive feeding and medical supervision would have been the development of a regiment of little hypochondriacs and neurotics, fearing tuberculosis and ruining their stomachs with tonics provided by mother in order that "Willy may be fat." The only criticism that I can give your article is that you are not quite rabid enough on the stand you take, for it really does a youngster harm to tell him that he is "under-weight," treat him as a convalescent, and make a little neurotic out of him, when he is a perfectly normal husky boy, but of the slender type. E. H. INGRAM, M.D. Office of the Dispensary, Richmond and Norris Streets, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. I was interested in the article regarding under-weight children which appeared in a recent number of The Outlook. You certainly have stated most clearly many real facts that those of us engaged in school work know to be truisms. Malnutrition as a term has been much abused. I do hope that you will send me ten or twelve of the leaflets is the only valid one within the realm of common sense. I have been preaching this doctrine to my nutrition classes, and it was most refreshing to find my private opinions so clearly and convincingly set forth where all may see them. STUART B. FOSTER, Department of Chemistry of Foods, State Normal School, Framingham, Massachusetts. I have read with much interest and profit your article on under-weight in this week's Outlook. I think it is eminently sane and helpful. I have thought much along your lines for some time. and last year had an opportunity of addressing a group of nutrition workers in New York City on the question of standards for children. I am inclosing You will see that a copy of this paper. DR. LOUIS I. DUBLIN, Statistician, Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, New York City. [In the above-mentioned paper is the following statement: "The limits of the zone of normal weight for each height and age should be based on the actual observation of well-nourished and poorly nourished children as determined by other signs and symptoms than weight, so that a diagnosis of malnutrition may be based on the whole physical condition of a child and not on its weight alone, as we are in great danger of doing now."] ... Your discussion of the under-weight delusion in The Outlook of March 15 is an absolutely right view of the matter, and I have engaged copies of this issue for immediate use in my schools. HAROLD C. BALES, Superintendent of Schools, Milford, New Hampshire. I want to congratulate you and to thank you for your sane article on "The Great Under-Weight Delusion," which I have just read in The Outlook. It certainly is timely, and I wonder why attention has not been directed that way sooner. O. M. PITTINGER, Superintendent, Indiana State School for the Deaf, Indianapolis, Indiana. As a physical director I wish to express my appreciation of your exposure of "The Great Under-Weight Delusion" in the current edition of The Outlook. It is high time that some one spoke up in ridicule of this absurdity. C. E. HAMMETT, Department of Physical Training, Meadville, Pennsylvania. The article entitled "The Great UnderWeight Delusion," by Mr. Charles K. Taylor, that appeared in The Outlook of March 15, is of great interest to the writer, who was in charge of the public school in Philadelphia in which, some years ago, the author of the article began his study of the subject. Under the direction of Mr. Taylor, ap proximately six hundred boys ranging from six to sixteen years of age were measured, weighed, and classified. Corrective work was prescribed for those requiring special attention, and others, by means of competitive exercises, were encouraged to improve themselves physically. In addition to the obvious physical improvement, verified by repeated meas urement that resulted, there was an ap preciable rise in the morale of the entire school. Cigarette smoking, voluntarily abandoned, became a negligible factor in discipline, and, what is more to the point, the improved scholastic standing of the pupilage included in the scheme was shown by a gratifying increase in the percentage of those who attained promotion to higher grades. The value of intensive work of this character was undoubtedly demonstrated during the two years of the writer's experience with it. L. LAWS, Principal Joseph Singerly Public School, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. I am a field director with the Tennessee State Board of Health, and much interested in the health of children. It was therefore with a good deal of interest that I read your article in the last Outlook, on the fetish of average weight. I . . . feel as you do that a physician can approximate more nearly a child's actual physical condition by an examination than by a scale. EDWARD A. LANE, In this school we have met the same handicaps you mentioned when we attempted to apply the average-weight chart. GEORGE S. PIERCE, Pearl Street School, Bridgeton, New Jersey. I certainly approve of your article and am going to give it all the publicity I WILLARD P. TOMLINSON, Swarthmore Preparatory School, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. I was much interested in your article in the current issue of The Outlook. I heartily agree with you in all your premises and deductions. F. M. EDSON, School No. 11, Elmira, New York. I have read your article "The Great Under-Weight Delusion," in The Outlook, with unusual interest, as I have never been reconciled to the "average" fetish. CARL A. RUNDLETT, Principal, Earlville High School, Earlville, New York. Your article. . . ought to bring an enormous amount of relief and common sense to homes and schools. I am interested both for my own children and our school here, which has been overdoing the "averaging" of children in the way of which you write. MRS. ALFRED A. BOOK WALTER. Briarcliff Manor, New York. ET 1 T BINGHAM SCHOOL MEBANE, N.C. ESTABLISHED 1793 AN IDEAL BOYS' SCHOOL IN PIEDMONT NORTH CAROLINA Here, at Bingham, the spirit of old-time Southern hospitality makes each boy feel genuinely welcome. Summer camp. TEACHERS' AGENCIES SUMMER SCHOOLS The Pratt Teachers Agency SUMMER SCHOOL 70 Fifth Avenue, New York Recommends teachers to colleges, public and private schools. Advises parents about schools. Wm. O. Pratt, Mgr. SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES CONNECTICUT Washington, Conn. Litchfield County Rock Gate Box 153 Country Home and School for Young Children Summer and winter sessions. CHARLOTTE O'GIRR CLARKE. MASSACHUSETTS MASSACHUSETTS, Cambridge, 48 Quincy Street. 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