Vocational Training as a Preventive of Crime

and lasting about ten years to the time of complete maturity. The limits of this period are rather indefinite. It is immediately preceded by a year or two of rapid growth and great physical and spiritual change. This short period of change is the time when the boy is at the parting of the ways. He is ceasing to be a child, but is not yet a man. He is in the 'hobble-de-hoy' stage of life. He is just merging into manhood's estate and for the first time he is beginning to see the world from a man's viewpoint. The body assumes new forms. The muscles develop rapidly, the heart and arteries are enlarged, blood pressure increases, blushing is greatly developed, the voice changes, and is at times beyond control?the whole physical being undergoes a new birth.