. New Boston; a chronicle of progress in developing a greater and finer city--under the auspices of the Boston-1915 movement. activitiescarried on in classformations. Group athletics,athletic badge tests,team games tourna-ments, and standardtrack and field e\entsmade up last yearsprogram. The termgroup athleticsrefers to events inwhich all or a large majority of the mem-bers of any center of activity, such as aplayground or a gymnasium, participateas a group and establish a record thatrepresents the average performance of thewhole number. This scheme makes itpossible for each individual to see
. New Boston; a chronicle of progress in developing a greater and finer city--under the auspices of the Boston-1915 movement. activitiescarried on in classformations. Group athletics,athletic badge tests,team games tourna-ments, and standardtrack and field e\entsmade up last yearsprogram. The termgroup athleticsrefers to events inwhich all or a large majority of the mem-bers of any center of activity, such as aplayground or a gymnasium, participateas a group and establish a record thatrepresents the average performance of thewhole number. This scheme makes itpossible for each individual to see thathis own work may raise the final is given a group reason to do hisbest, even though, as a personal per-former, his record might be poor. Bythis method of competition it is foundeasier to raise the average for the groupby improving the work of a large numberof poor performers, than to increase therecord of a few stars. The athletic badge test is a method ofcompetition in which each boy is showna standard which he ought to reach un-less physically incapacitated. Threeevents—chinning the bar, jumping and Th. THE BALTIMORE MEDAL running—are arranged for three classesof boys. If a boy in the first class reachesthe standard set for these events, he re-ceives a bronze button; a silver button isthe rcAvard in the second class, and a goldbutton in the third class. A trophy is alsoawarded to the group having the largestpercentage of successful contestants. Through team game tournaments,basket ball, dodge ball, volley ball, re-lay racing and the like are combined inone tournament, carried on throughoutthe summer at all the centers, accordingto schedule. standard track and field eventsinclude games similarto those conductedby the Boston-1915Boys Games Com-mittee during the lasttwo summers. Theb o y s are classifiedaccording to weightso that those equal abilityand developmentI h come together. The Leagues med-als and trophies areof small intrinsic val-ue, but of s
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