CHAPTER V 

 Special Exercises 



When a boy or a girl has had any particular 

 developmental deficiency pointed out, if it is 

 one that can be remedied or improved by exer- 

 cises, the following movements may be used. 

 Many of these are especially applicable to individ- 

 ual use. In large schools it is impossible to give 

 each child each day special exercises. But if a boy 

 or a girl has been properly interested in physical 

 development — this being a main object of this 

 work — then he or she will be willing and anxious 

 to work for improvement in out-of-school hours. 

 So in the school general movements can be 

 given, care being taken, however, to see that no 

 child is taking a kind of exercise for which he or 

 she is not fitted. The great fault with the usual 

 class drill is that there are present, now and then, 

 children who may be harmed by some of the more 

 rapid and strenuous movements. For this reason 

 every child should have at least a heart exam- 

 ination. 



When a boy is "measured" and his interest 

 thereby aroused, he can be shown his deficiency, 

 if he has one, and also be shown the appropriate 



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