sical, mental, and moral tone.

For the protection of these physical defective grinds it is suggested
to put a physical qualification upon the candidates of Phi Beta Kappa
and their awards of scholarship. If scholarship men cannot be induced
to take time to improve their physique for fear of lowering their
college standing, then give them credit for standing in physical work.

The abnormally bright, at whatever age, is as much a subject for
examination and treatment as the child with adenoids and pulmonary
tuberculosis. Such attention will increase the percentage of abnormally
bright schoolmates who figure in active business in later life.
Moreover, it will decrease the number of high school superintendents
who declare that their honor pupils are physical wrecks.

There are children who develop very rapidly, both physically and
mentally, and whose mental superiority is not at the expense of their
bodies. Protection of such children requires that their minds be
permitted to progress as rapidly as bodily health justifies. It is as
cruel to keep back a physically and mentally superior child, as to push
the physically or mentally defective beyond his powers. Worry and
fatigue can be produced by lack of interest as well as by overwork.
"Normal" should not be confused with "average." To keep a bright child
back with the average child--marking time till the dull ones catch
up--is to make him abnormal. The tests that we have employed for
grading pupils are either the tests of age in years or of mental
capacity. The first takes no account of slowness or rapidity of
physiological development,--of physiological age. The second encourages
mental activity at the expense of physique. The entrance of a child
into school, the promotion from one class to another, the entrance into
college, are thus determined either by the purely artificial test of
age or by the individual teacher's discretion. There is nothing to
prevent the ambitious teacher or the ambitious parent from pushing a
child into kindergarten at four, high school at twelve, college at
fifteen. If this cannot be done at the public school, a private school
is resorted to. A community of college professors once started a school
for faculty children. A tremendous pressure was put upon these scions
of intellectual aristocracy to enter the high school at twelve. No
thought was given to the ventilation of the school. The windows were
so arranged that they could not be opened wit