fail to connect it with the physical vigor of the women. In boys'
schools games are not only encouraged, but made compulsory; but
this is by no means a universal rule in girls' schools. It is not
necessary, and is indeed highly undesirable, that the games
adopted should be those of boys. In England especially, where the
movements of women are so often marked by awkwardness, angularity
and lack of grace, it is essential that nothing should be done to
emphasize these characteristics, for where vigor involves
violence we are in the presence of a lack of due neuro-muscular
cooerdination. Swimming, when possible, and especially some forms
of dancing, are admirably adapted to develop the bodily movements
of women both vigorously and harmoniously (see, e.g., Havelock
Ellis, _Man and Woman_, Ch. VII). At the International Congress
of School Hygiene in 1907 (see, e.g., _British Medical Journal_,
Aug. 24, 1907) Dr. L.H. Gulick, formerly Director of Physical
Training in the Public Schools of New York City, stated that
after many experiments it had been found in the New York
elementary and high schools that folk-dancing constituted the
very best exercise for girls. "The dances selected involved many
contractions of the large muscular masses of the body and had
therefore a great effect on respiration, circulation and
nutrition. Such movements, moreover, when done as dances, could
be carried on three or four times as long without producing
fatigue as formal gymnastics. Many folk-dances were imitative,
sowing and reaping dance, dances expressing trade movements (the
shoemaker's dance), others illustrating attack and defense, or
the pursuit of game. Such neuro-muscular movements were racially
old and fitted in with man's expressive life, and if it were
accepted that the folk-dances really expressed an epitome of
man's neuro-muscular history, as distinguished from mere
permutation of movements, the folk-dance combinations should be
preferred on these biological grounds to the unselected, or even
the physiologically selected. From the aesthetic point of view the
sense of beauty as shown in dancing was far commoner than the
power to sing, paint or model."

It must always be remembered that in realizing the especial demands of
woman's nature, we do not commit ourselves to the belief that higher
education