Swale ATU MINI W HH KLY AN WRITE FOR PARTICULARS, A PROTECTIVE INVESTMENT... combining sure protection with all the advantages possessed by stocks and bonds as investments—such is.a Life Insurance Policy. ORDINARY LIFE INSURANCE POLICY.... furnishes protection and constitutes one of the best investments known to the financial world. Full information of those issued by The Prudential furnished on request. THE PRUDENTTA Insurance Company of America. LESLIE D. WARD, Vice-President. FORREST F. DRYDEN, Secretary. JOHN F. DRYDEN, President. EDGAR B. WARD, 2d Vice-President and Counsel. HOME OFFICE: NEWARK, N. J GYMNASIOM EDUCATION. Important Action by Directors—Re- straining Trainers. The third annual meeting of the Society of College Gymnasium Directors was held in the Yale Gymnasium, Dec. 29 and 30. The Society is composed of the head directors of the gymnasiums of fifteen colleges and universities who have been actively engaged in college work not less than three years and thus constitutes the highest authority on gym- nastic work in the country. This meeting was especially import- ant because of the action taken on two points. First, a committee, with Dr. J. W. Seaver of Yale as Chairman, was appointed to study the therapeutic effect of judicious gymnastic work_on heart- disease and hernia, and to report the best methods. The significance of this step 1s apparent when it is known that large numbers of students come to col- lege afflicted with some sort or other of these organic disorders, that some forms of light gymnastic work have _ been proved to be a very helpful, if not the most helpful remedy, and that this ac- tion is the first effort made by any scientific or medical organization to in- vestigate the subject. The other important feature was the appointment of another committee, with Dr. W. G. Anderson of Yale as its Chairman, to investigate the relation of gymnastics and athletics to the college. This includes a wise oversight of the men on the various athletic teams, pre- venting those who are physically unfit through natural defects from entering into athletics at all, and preventing those who are crippled by injuries from par- ticipating in contests. An investigation on the facts and proposed measures for reform were unanimously adopted, be- cause recently several athletes, Yale men as well as others, have been seriously in- jured from being allowed by trainers to go into games when they were in no physical condition to do so. This committee will also make,an ef- fort to have the faculties of the various colleges give credit, either on their scholarship stand or otherwise,.to the students, usually Freshmen, of whom they require gymnastic work. The plan has been tried in the University of Chi- cago and Haverford College. It not only puts a stop to the grumbling over compulsory gymnastic exercise, but arouses an interest in the work. cr pase ‘Society during this meeting re- vised and improved in detail the inter- collegiate method of physical measure- ments and strength tests which was adopted two years ago. This uniform method will now allow a more satisfac- tory and accurate method of compiling statistics and of comparing the strong men of the various colleges in their annual competition. Steps were also taken for the revision of the nomen- clature. | | Dr. W. G. Anderson is the newly elected President of the Society. SCHOOL NOTES. DE LA SALLE, — The De La Salle football eleven, which won the New York Inter- scholastic Championship, was an un- usually heavy one. The weights were as follows: J.. Thorp, r.e., 155; Brooks, t.t:, 1703. Motiroe, tg, 250} Salievan, c., 178; °T. Thorp; 1. 205: Connell, l.t., 180; Murphy, le., 150; Allen gq.b., 140; Adan, r.h.b., 151; Keeler, I.h.b., 163; Dunn, f.b., 165. Of these men, Monroe, Adan and Keeler expect to enter Yale next Fall. The De La Salle scores of the season were as follows: Against Berkeley, 4o to nothing; against Cutler, 17 to nothing; against Trinity, 11 to 5. ST. MARKS. Of the St. Marks team and substitutes six will graduate next Spring. Carpen- ter, one of the halfbacks, Hutchinson an end and Sanger and Taft of the sub- stitutes will go to Harvard; Mackey, the Captain and left tackle, to Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Bacon, one of the substitutes, into business. A. Howard Hinkle, 1901, of Cincinnati, has been elected Captain for next year. He has played halfback for two years, is a strong, fast player, and enjoys the confidence of the school. ee ae Mr. Whitney’s All-American Team, Caspar Whitney picks the following all-American football team for 1899: McBride (Yale), Captain and fullback; Sharpe (Yale), and Reiter (Princeton), halfbacks; Daly (Harvard), quarter; Overfield (Pennsylvania), center; Hare (Pennsylvania), and McCracken (Penn- sylvania), guards; Hillebrand (Prince- ton), and Stillman -(Yale), tackles; Campbell (Harvard), and Poe (Prince- ton), ends. He names these substitutes in the line: Hale (Yale), Brown (Yale), Edwards (Princeton), Lawrence (Har- vard), Wheelock (Carlisle), Slocum (Brown), Hallowell (Harvard). Back of the line: Sawin (Harvard), Richard- son (Brown), Reid (Harvard), Hud- son (Carlisle).