an attendance of 16. These were succeeded by summer “conferences,” more informal and intended for directors already in the work, which met for a week or ten days each year from 1892 through 1895. In 1896 and thereafter the conferences were held under the auspices of the International Committee. Additional educative means were the correspondence courses for physical directors, first offered by the Training School in the fall of 1891 and continued for four years, and the monthly Athletic League Letter, beginning in November of 1898. The Physical Directors’ Society of the Young Men’s Christian Associations of North America was organized during a conference held at Lakewood, on Chautauqua Lake, New York, June 16-18, 1903. The relation of physical training to Association work as a whole, and the type and methods suited to Association conditions, Dr. Gulick considered in a paper on “Our New Gymnastics,” read at the Twenty-eighth International Convention (Philadelphia, May 11, 1889), and one on “The Distinctive Features of the Physical Work in the Association” at the Twenty-ninth Convention (Kansas City, May 9, 1891). He urged that man is a unit, that the Associations “are working for _young men_, not simply for their bodies, minds and souls, but for the salvation, development and training of the whole man complete as God made him,” and that physical education therefore forms a vital part of the Association program. The objects of exercise and the sorts needed in Association gymnasia were discussed at the first and second summer conferences of physical directors (1892 and 1893) and in the columns of _Physical Education_ for May, 1892, and January and October, 1893. He furnished the chapter on the Physical Department for a “Hand-Book of the History, Organization and Methods of Work of Young Men’s Christian Associations,” issued by the International Committee in 1892 (pp. 297-339), and presented the claims of “The Physical Directorship of the Young Men’s Christian Association as a Life Work” in a pamphlet published by that body in 1890.