Excerpt from Mind and Body, Vol. 17: A Monthly Journal Devoted to Physical Education; March, 1910 to February, 1911
This is not from any inability to be strong. There are to be seen enough sturdy and vigorous Americans of both sexes to serve as examples of what we all might be. Our athletes, both amateur and professional, com pare favorably with those of other countries and with those of former times, showing what the possibilities are. In the busy world we can find many such examples as Colonel and Mrs. Roosevelt, - people whose deliberate purposes has been to make themselves equal: by their own habits, of life to the duties of American citizenship.
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