Excerpt from Thompson's Island Beacon, Vol. 7: May 1903 April 1904 Education should not repress the natural faculties, but regulate, control and direct them. The encouragement of competitive sports and games is of great advantage. Competition In such games as basket ball, football and base ball furnishes 5 safety valve for the vent of the bubbling, animated spirit and restless energy of youth and promotes good fellowship. Boxing teaches the control of the temper and lessens the tendency to boasting, quarreling and fight mg. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.