become daily more important in face of the complex 

 problems of modern life, and of the severe international 

 industrial competition of to-day. 



The recent evidence before the Committee of the 

 Technical Board of Education brought out strongly the 

 little enthusiasm for knowledge, for its own sake, as con- 

 trasted with the devotion and interest given to athletic 

 games, which follows from the present system of our 

 schools. 



Now the working out of some one subject by the con- 

 tinuous concentration of the mind upon it, which research 

 imposes as a condition of success, necessarily begets and 

 stimulates interest in it. The student soon becomes 

 engrossed in his chosen pursuit. In this way enthusiasm 

 for knowledge, for its own sake, will be awakened, and 

 the student no longer content to go through his work 

 perfunctorily, for the sake of passing his examination. 

 Further, from this entering into it of a new affection, the 

 mind of the student is no longer left empty, as is too 

 frequently the case under the present system, to be taken 

 exclusive possession of by athletics and games, until he 

 comes to look upon them as a chief end in themselves, 

 and not, as they should be regarded, as valuable means 

 of preserving mind and body in that healthy balance 

 which is most suitable for the severe and continued exercise 

 of the intellectual powers. 



Another secondary result, the importance of which can 

 scarcely be over-estimated in view of the world-wide 



