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exercise may be made useful and beneficial, instead of hurtful and 

 dangerous as most of them are now. German sport is intended to 

 remain an amateur sport; it is not to be a wild record breaking mania 

 and struggle for money premiums, to satisfy the overwrought ambi- 

 tious few; it is not to satisfy the curious wishing to see celebrated 

 champions. The time-honored title of sportsman is to be denied to 

 those who witness a tournament simply because they want to bet on 

 the results. Professionals who are in it for what they can get out of it 

 are not to be called sportsmen; the German sportsman is to remain a 

 gentleman, active without being greedy for gain. The pleasure in tour- 

 naments, a national characteristic, is not to be discouraged, but it is not 

 to be regarded as the highest aim of sport. A sentiment for out-of-door 

 sport is to reach the entire nation; it is to bring the individual citizen 

 from his office and workshop out under the influence of God's sunlit 

 nature, to enable him to stretch his limbs and to fill his lungs with 

 oxygen and his mind with the beauties of nature. 



Manly virtue, endurance and resistance are to be placed above calci- 

 fied arteries, enlargements of hearts and collapse. To this program the 

 sport division of the exposition has remained true throughout. 



The Significance of the Hall, Marked in Laege Golden 



Letters, " DEE MENSCH " at the Internationale 



Hygiene-Ausstellung 



The conventional attitude in fashionable society of displaying an 

 unconscious ignorance with reference to everything concerning the 

 structure and functions of the different organs of the human body is 

 gradually losing the character of its traditional respectability. The 

 forces at present operative in shaping the destinies of human races have 

 rendered such a display of lack of knowledge culpable to a degree and 

 its further cultivation a crime. The most formidable governing power 

 in any free and enlightened country being .admittedly based upon a 

 sound public opinion, itself a function of the degree of the general 

 health of its citizens, it clearly becomes the duty of every individual to 

 contribute to this constitutional asset of his commonwealth, in propor- 

 tion to his personal intelligence and educational standing, as the most 

 valued tax that can be levied on his citizenship, for it seems pretty well 

 acknowledged that the future will belong to the nation possessing the 

 greatest number of strong, healthy and physically as well as mentally 

 resistant individuals. 



As a contribution to the methodology of disseminating such knowl- 

 edge among the people in the most effectual manner, the hall of popular 

 hygiene at Dresden stands preeminent in recent times. Structure and 

 functions of the human body were never before presented in a more easily 

 assimilable form. The conditions necessary for the preservation of 

 health and for the prevention of disease were never before set forth in 

 so easily intelligible a manner. Neither expense nor pains had been 



