Note 280 — Chapter XXV · PHYSICAL TRAINING IN THE YOUNG MEN’S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATIONS.

In 1900, not yet thirty-five years old, Dr. Gulick resigned his position at the Springfield Training School in order to become principal of the Pratt Institute High School, in Brooklyn. Three years later he was appointed director of physical training in the public schools of greater New York, but retained this office only until 1908, and then accepted the directorship of the department of child hygiene under the Russell Sage Foundation. In 1913 he became president of the “Camp Fire Girls.” A study of his labors since 1900, in these new fields, in organizations like the American Physical Education Association and the Playground Association of America, and as an advocate of the Efficient Life by spoken and written words which reached an ever-growing audience would carry us beyond the immediate object of this sketch, which is to suggest the place he has filled in the evolution of ideals, means, and methods of physical training in the Young Men’s Christian Associations of North America. He died at Camp Gulick, on Sebago Lake, Maine, August 13, 1918. The following books suggest his later interests: “The Efficient Life” (1907); “Mind and Work” (1908), “Medical Inspection of Schools” (with Leonard P. Ayres, 1909), “The Healthful Art of Dancing” (1910), “The Dynamics of Manhood” (1917), and “A Philosophy of Play” (1920).