15 JUNE 1907, Page 3

A meeting on behalf of the National League for Physical

Education and Improvement was held at Devonshire House on Tuesday. The League, which is worthy of all support, most wisely refuses to assume the existence of progressive deteriora- tion. If 'such deterioration is assumed, and figures are then produced to show that the deterioration is imaginary, many people are only too ready to conclude that the whole matter is disposed of and nothing remains to be done. All the League says is that there are conditions undoubtedly conducive to deterioration, and that in any case no one can deny that the physical standard of the nation is capable of improvement.