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Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 3 Jun 1937, p. 36

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-Relatively few know that over on the girls' side of the Leslie Freeman Gates gymnasiu'in at Indian Hill, and on the playfields along. Suniset road, is caried on the program the pictures. on this pàge depict. Mg f UW Lacrosse, tennis, golf, riding, arch- ery,ý dancing, shown on this page (a nd bseball and life-saving .and -many another sport not shown)i are flot,. in this connection,,part of the twice;- a-wcek -physical .education .classes. These pictures were, ýal -taken aftei- school hours, and al of thesegili- stead of' playing, might, with equal freedoin, have inidulged in one of the more ýr hss. harmless anid indolent pleasures of adolescent yÔuth. That 75 per cent of ail New Trier's 1,100 girls prefer to stay after. classes two or three (or more) afternoons ~every week, 4het ýthey mnamge <withI faculty guidance) their own, sporf prograni, that they are as proud o the points and honors-they thus earn as are their boy classmates of the enormous grey and green "N" given for varsity competition,, make New Trier noted in physical education work (as well as for scholarship) throughout the nation. Lest. F.maame*siy auct, under the nawk eye oi the lac- ulty inember who is always present, for instruction on the field of play. * Even girls who, for physical rea- sons, cannot cotnpete in such fast- movng games as lacrosse, may par- ticipate to the extent of score-keep- ing or ie keeping. Except for golf and riding, the ac- *tivities are conducted at New Trier, In the other two cases.~ the girls was supplied by es were i atc rhythm Istai Dving; anid the pictures' by a I,ile 8 »n .de

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