. St. Nicholas [serial] . ootball, Boys, Parentsand Football, and similar questions of the sortthat sometimes rage about major trainingquarters as well as among younger footballplayers. Boys who would be splendid foot-ball material, but whose parents do not wishthem to play, are a problem in colleges as wellas in high schools and prep schools, and thequestion of how to make football a game which shall retain its rigorousqualities and yet not deserve the reproaches of those who regard it as toodangerous, has bothered the leaders of sport. This is an article whichevery boy will want his parents
. St. Nicholas [serial] . ootball, Boys, Parentsand Football, and similar questions of the sortthat sometimes rage about major trainingquarters as well as among younger footballplayers. Boys who would be splendid foot-ball material, but whose parents do not wishthem to play, are a problem in colleges as wellas in high schools and prep schools, and thequestion of how to make football a game which shall retain its rigorousqualities and yet not deserve the reproaches of those who regard it as toodangerous, has bothered the leaders of sport. This is an article whichevery boy will want his parents to read, if there is trouble about his beingallowed to go in for football. No one outside of a school can know whatit means to a fellow to be shut out of the big excitement of the season, andeven suspected of a yellow streak because his parents wont let himplay. Mr. Metzger explains why such a, prohibition is no longer neces-sary, and tells parents what they can do instead, to make sure their sonis not taking undue THE PILGRIM TERCENTENARY That long and catchy-syllabled word means something of greatmoment to American boys and girls, and St. Nicholas will do its part inmaking the three-hundredth anniversary of the landing of the Pilgrims atPlymouth Rock memorable. There will be an article on the Pilgrims byH. A. Ogden, which will stir the hearts of good Americans whether theirancestors came here in search of religious liberty in 1620, or arrived inlater years. There will be also a brief but very interesting sketch ofThe Mayflower Pilgrims in Switzerland, with a photograph of the Swissmemorial, and there will be other Tercentenary features. NEW-WORLD HERO STORIES By Mary R. Parkman Robert McCormick and his son Cyrus, useful patriots of peace, madeit possible for America to fulfill the slogan: wheat will win the for the invention, perfection and marketing of the reaper, such great I 12 wheat harvests as the world to-day must have or starve would never have been pos
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