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rosiilts ran l")y a sort of vital proposs and motive ho i^ot into tho 

 minds of thiidvin^ people throughout the city, such people are 

 going to see the vakie of an investment of that sort, and are 

 going to be willing to pay more in taxes for carrying on the 

 work of educational philanthroj)y. 



A great part of the effort of those who are endeavoring to 

 promote educational phihmthropy is to explain to intelligent 

 persons tlu'oughout the community just what the need is of 

 new enterprise in that direction, and to exi)lain to such persons 

 in ver}^ concrete fashion its definite results. In other words, 

 educational philanthropy has a mission to the educated classes 

 and the resourceful classes quite as distinctly as to those who 

 belong to the less privileged ranks in life. 



In the first place, those of us who arc interested in this 

 method feel very strongly there must l)e a greater extension of 

 effort in the way of physical education. We have now, in 

 Boston, a remarkable series of pul)lic l^aths, public play 

 grounds, and public indoor gymnasiums. All of these insti- 

 tutions are used up to the limit of their capacity. The effort 

 in the playgrounds and in the gymnasiums is constantly to 

 raise the standards of instruction, and to make the opportu- 

 nities of these institutions available in the fullest degree to l^oth 

 sexes and to adults as well as to children and young people. 

 One verj^ interesting use to which the gymnasiums are put 

 is that of providing the right sort of physical training for 

 young men who are later on to enter the city's service in 

 the police department and fire department. Those depart- 

 ments are an object of ambition to many young men in cliffer- 

 ent parts of the city. These young men now find a chance such 

 as they never had before to get the appropriate training. 

 Since the city gymnasiums began their work five years ago 

 the standard for the physical examination for entrance into 

 these departments has risen nearly twenty per cent. It was 

 formerly about sixty five per cent; it is now over eightv per 

 cent. Here in very definite fashion is a result which the in- 

 telligent taxpayer must in due time take account of. He 

 must begin to see that it is an excellent financial investment 

 for the city to pro\'ide agencies through which the men who are 

 going to serve the city in important ways in the future shall 



