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of success or failure by means of charts and tabulated figures, as reference 
is not had solely to the present or immediate future, but to remote after- 
days, that the influence of our instrumentalities may manifest them- 
selves in other and happier phases of life. Gross corporal results can be 
:abulated. Those more subtle and relating to mind and conduct cannot 
be formulated, but must be evolved by association and observation of 
subsequent living. The same measurements in vogue in prominent gym- 
nasia are employed and repeated in a given case, from time to time. to 
Jemonstrate the degree of responsiveness. 
It is not measurements alone, important as anthropometry is, that con- 
veys an idea of the success of this gymnasium or that. The fullness of 
wccomplishment should not be gauged by structural increase alone, as 
revealed on tape-line, calipers, and measuring rod ; or augmented mus- 
cular power, as shown by the dynamometer and other tests; but rather 
as it develops potential power and brings out that which will be of the 
greatest value to the individual. The training should be carried out 
along the line of greatest proficiency, keeping in view the law of natural 
limitation. It must be development, not creation. 
The material we have to work upon is not the most promising. It is a 
deluded stream of beings of defective ancestry, inauspiciously conceived 
ind antagonized before birth, whose surroundings, voluntary and invol- 
antary, operated to reduce physical forces and nullify that subtle power, 
that unknown quantity, that determines the quality of a man. 
IT'HE NORTH AMERICAN TURNER-BUND--ITS HISTORY, 
AIMS, AND ACHIEVEMENTS. 
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BY HUGO MUENCH, EX-PRESIDENT NORTH AMERICAN TURNER-BUND, 
ST. LOUIS, MO. 
TE North American Turner-Bund (Gymnastic Union) is an organiza- 
:on which now unites over forty-two thousand members, distributed over 
well-nigh all the States of this Union ; which looks back upon a history of 
over forty years of gradual and steady growth, and which is not founded 
apon those principles of modified selfishness which cement most modern 
social organizations, but which, on the contrary, demands, and has always 
received, from its members many forms of personal sacrifice. It must 
therefore be based upon some living principles that are both humane and 
inspiring, and which do not spring merely from temporary need or per- 
sonal advantage. 
An understanding of the nature and principles of the Turner-Bund 
cannot well be had without recalling the history and fortunes of its 
founders.