The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1923-05-11


s to 20 years old. DR.. John Brown Jr's.
Y. M. c. A. athletic standards are in
teresting. For example. in the so
pound class boy gets no points for
throwing a baseball 70 feet, nonor
standard for 1870 feet 100 points to his
score for 10 feet.
The University of Michigan stand
ards for men for physical efficiency
are charted, and requirements for
membership in the Sigma Delta Psi
national athletic fraternity found at
Indiana University in 1912.
Ypsilanti furnishes the college
standards of physical efficiency for
women at the Michigan State Normal
college.
The rest of the book is largely taken
up with descriptions of games of diff
ferent types and plans for laying out
courts, fields and score boards.
"The dance in which the peasant
people in almost all countries in Eu-
rope find the most enjoyable means Of
exercise and of giving oppression to
iold folklore are known under the name
of folk Dances" says Nils w. Berg
quist in the foreword to his book on
I"Sweedish Folk Dances" Barnes, $2)
| There are costume photographs and
diagrams and music, with clear direct
lions to the dancers, or the teacher ri
dancing, to follow. The Oxen Dance,
I ho Of hn
book. Skobo, and Clop dances and
many others, all are there. 1t is not a
new book published the first year of
the Great War;, but it is the best of
its kind | know about.
| $50 $50
| am reading Robert Keable's novel
on creedal indifferences, "Peradven-
ture," and am much impressed with
the a deeply thoughtful argument is
made to underlie a good tale of stu
dent life at Cambridge University. and
surburban affairs just on the edge OF
London. and later in foreign mission
field. The title? In MS dedicatory pre-
face the author says Il believe that
sorrow in the human story is but the
shadow of a lovlier thing; that the
grass grows green, that the flower
blows red; that in the wide sea also
are things creeping innumerable bot
small and great beasts, and that ev
cry one is good. And Gods in His
Heaven? Peradventure at least Hi:
veil is fair" Paul, the chief character
is a most loveable boy.
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