THE RUSSSAIN TERROR.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 139, 6 March 1908, Page 7

THE RUSSSAIN TERROR.

CHIEF OF GENDARMERIE MURDERED. , BY TELEqRAPn—riIESS ASSOCIATION—COFTRIGHI ' St. Petersburg, March 4. ; Terrorists havo murdered tho Chief of Gendarmerie at Radom/Russian Poland. PUBLIC SCHOOL 1 GAMES. SUGGESTION BY THE \BISHOP' OF 1 LONDON. : /.■ .'' ,'... ; • ; V' LOKttan, March 4.:. The .Bishop of London (Dr. WiiiningtonIngrani) has returned from a visit, to |3t. ■Petersburg, Moscow, aiul' : Warsaw.' : He' declares that ono causo of tho EV Ga -t unrest and revolutionary tendencies ,of young men and girls is that Russia is without public pohool games'. An effort is liow heiiig mado to introduce British sports.

SCHOOL ATHLETICS, The Bishop of London win sppak with some authority on the valuo of athlbtics, being himself a publio school; ai)il University mail and an enthusiastic 'golfer 'and tennis- player.-.;Ho apparently- endorses the remarks of the great >, Duko..of.-Wellington that .the battle, of Water-, 100 was won on the playing fields of Eton. In English public school athletic sport's 'form a very important part of- a boy's education. Indeed, liouie parents th'afc too much attention is paid to this, form f, of training, and after all boys are sent to school. to learn something besides football- and cricket., Tho placo of' athletics in education has been a frequent subject of. -disc-nision 'at , the headmasters' conferences.', -. V" . - .;■ Athletics have not assupied a. fully, oygqnised 'form in -England' till. in 'quite recept . years. Tho' explanation of this phenomenon is not far to seek, when we remember'that the dislike ,'of 'elaborate'.system and drill, 1 , and.,the admirntion for' spontaneity and individualism, ar& peculiarly English characteristics! • In'fact, the very prpvalmtce/of athletics in ;tho .un-organised-form of gomes, iJniL the almost 6cien r tific elaboration of . their rules, has naturally aofod- against tho* introduction -.'yf the more artificial and less spontaneous forms of organised gymnastics. : Tho youth took" tlio matter into - their own hands. Inheriting the traditions of a bygone time, and tho aptitudes of, athletic ancestors, they developed • qrgijnisei}' J)) ay ill their Ipkn' ways, which were sometimes' tolerated'-by their masters, and often kept in narrow-bounds ..by rigid school statiito,. such as tfynt for Shrewsbury School in -1575, which laid'down that boys'should play " only oil Thursday's." Thus athletics in the .publio schools have remained-in.-the'.hands'- of more or less, down to • our day. 'School games have been tolerated and encouraged as a useful vent, for tho animal spirits, a tamer of boyish, wildnesses less irksome -to. the schoolmaster and more solf-acting' than, repressive discipline). a queller of; surging, passions , by working the full-blooded and high-mettled "up to tho point of fatigue." ': But within the last two; or threo decades the, scientific spirit of tho-.age, surveying tlife whole field of oduoation with a. fuller knowledge of tho physiology of the human frame, ! has brought into prominence the absolute dopcndenco of the heqlthy mind upon Hie healthy body. Physical training has, .-therefore, bor come, equally. with, mental.'training, - tho concern' of the teacher \ylio ipeks to carry out the modern educational idea.