Science and Physical Development 



games are more difficult to organise, but the dis- 

 cipline as well as the health they bring make 

 them invaluable, and the Report urges that use 

 should be made of all available voluntary help. 

 All this, of course, is as true of England as Scot- 

 land. Our towns greatly need playground space, 

 and it would seem that few forms of voluntary 

 effort bring a more immediate and abundant return 

 than that given to organising swimming, football, 

 and cricket clubs, boys' brigades, and cadet corps 

 among boys from ten to seventeen or eighteen 

 years of age. Much good work of this kind is 

 done out of school hours by school teachers, and 

 no doubt if the urgent need of helpers, and the 

 ready response of the lads to such help were better 

 known, many young men of other social ranks 

 could be induced to come and help to teach the 

 boys of England the games which have done so 

 much to build up the English character. The 

 Children's Happy Evenings Association has done 

 something, but more is wanted than to teach little 

 ones how to dance and play parlour games. The 

 boys and girls both need friends who will organise 

 clubs to play outdoor games in the school play- 

 grounds and in public parks and open spaces, and 

 if necessary the school curriculum might be so 

 enlarged as to include such outdoor play within 

 the limits of a compulsory attendance somewhat 

 longer than that we now enforce. 



Then comes the question of Continuation Classes. 

 Here the Report mildly hints at attendance at 

 physical exercises being made compulsory for lads 



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