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and training as will tend to bring him
up to the required standard Of SYM
metry. All this work we plan to have
out Of doors when possible. out In the
fresh air.
Athletic games when properly super
vised form an unsurpassed educational
instrument for developing q boys
physique and building him into the
future man. Not only that, but these
games touch upon q side A Of our tri-
angle and become n powerful moral
agent. DO they not teach the boy O
love Of fair play? Do they not train
him up to stand defeat and to lose
with dignity? And through such ex-
periences your boy becomes q high
minded lad. Moreover. II Is the spon-
taneity Of these games which makes
them 80 beneficial to the growing boy.
for he obtains the result Of the exercise
without being war he Is doing it.
There Is none OF the mOnotonous
repetition Of the old time gymnasium.
In the city now. thanks to modern
inventions and equipment. the school,
boy a have his athletic games from
September to June. In the autumn he
can have regulation football on some
public playground. or soccer IL he pre-
ter. In the winter, hockey at tho
Kinks or basketball In the various
gymnasiums. In the spring. baseball
ON the park Fairgrounds, and in the
early summer, tennis and golf.
And now as to the base a of u tri-
angle-the boys moral nature. The
school to-day trains a boy in morality
rather by example than by preccpt,
since in the making for morality the
church and the home have found their
widest influence, wherein the school
car but supplement and should
not endeavor to supplant. Accordingly
1t Is by the proper adjustment of the
sides B and c that the base A is to
he held in place.
A moments thought must now make
1t evident that the private schools can
do best such individual work, because
small classes-rarely more than ten
are absolutely essential to its sue
cessful accomplishment. And all this
work must he planned and guided 10y a
head master who Is himself q compe.
tent n cultured teacher Of strong
personality and wide experience. More
over, to obtain permanent results this
head master must assure himself OF
thorough preparation by each boy OF
every lesson; and with the younger
boys such preparation il best obtained
a. school under expert supervision by
competent assistants. Such training
the modern New York city private
school gives to the boy--a training
practical because 1t leads to success in
life. a training 8 cOmpacted and ar
ticulated that it will ft q boy thor
oughly for business or college six
months or a year o n than by other
methods. the training that will rem
der a man alert in meeting COMPETE
tors and accurate in finding their
limitations. Remember. It has been
said OF the New York city man that
: he must compete not only with other
New York city men but also with the
ahlest men from the country at large,
who have chosen New York city as the
centre OF their activities. Moreover,
he must fight hard against the grow
Ing ~inaccuracy observable on every
hand, another form Of that indifference
which has been called the basal
American fault"
Oliver Goldsmith once wrote q book
ertitled IAN Essay Towards the Ma.
ture Of the Earth" AS an essay toward
remedyiGg this basal American
fault l would respectfully suggest
the study OF Latin as our fathers
studied it fifty years AGA thorough
appreciation of its fine points and ex-
ceptions, an ability to read easy hexa-
meter verse at sight-the prose au-
thors go without saying-a fundamen-
tai knowledge OF the niceties OF
scansion with qualities OF incremen,
In both noun and verb. ability to dis.
tinguish clearly between two puzzlinr
possibilities In syntax-above all, the
knack OF writing a prose Latin tina,
would not make "Quintilian stare and
gasp"
In our hurry for lodging the Difficult,
We slaughtered the Greek requirement
for college entrance thirty years age
without a thought OF how great was
cur loss In spiritual uplift. In ter
years more Latin will have gone the
same way, and no longer will roll
through our classrooms the music OF
the Nirgilian hexameter-a faint echo
Of the surge and thunder Of the
Odyssey"
Fortunately for our New York boy
u city has become the educationa'
centre Of America-Columbia Univer.
sity, with its college. graduate and
professional schools and many afili.
ated institutions: New York Univer'
sity and the City College. to men.
ton but q few Of the higher educa,
tional institutions. Private day school.
also there are In New York city, such
as have been outlined above. that viii
TT the boy for his life work. Nov
since the greater majority of New
York boys after graduation spent
their lives in business or In some pro,
f%essional work in New York city, ant
In many cases are sent to and from
New York as a centre. they should III
educated In the city and learn Il
know Its people and its ways. Friend,
ships such as n boy forms during hi.
schools days are formed in aftel
life, and they are invaluable for pleas
ure or business during those year.
when school and college are past. 4
boy learns to swim by swimming. ant
to skate by skating; likewise, h,
should learn to live In New York b,
living In New York and being par
and parcel thereof.