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572 The Jesuits have never neglected the care of the health of their pupils. Long ago they had introduced various games into their colleges and did much to interest all the pupils in them. This is mentioned as a laudable feature of their educational system even by men who wrote in a hostile spirit against the Society. The Jesuits recognized the importance of games at a period when they were little esteemed by others. "The schools of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries are in general noted for their gloomy neglect of