Many critics of our British "public school" consider that far more stress is placed upon achievements in athletics than in the academic sphere, and, in particular, complain against games being compulsory. We are told that it is (76) to compel boys with no athletic (77) to spend hours of misery on a cricket or football field, when, if (78) to themselves, they would occupy their time far more usefully and enjoyably in some (79) hobby. The (80) to this argument (81) the facile assumption that every non-athlete has some profitable hobby. This is not true; (82) even if it were, model engineering or stamp-collecting is no substitute for being out in the fresh air, exercising the muscles and having (83) with other human beings.
(84) the youthful idolizing of athletes, which tends to upset a boy’s (85) of values and may do (86) harm to the objects of this hero-worship
A. failure
B. successive
C. continual
D. triumphal
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