Now, coming back to the Red Triangle, Gulick wanted to provide the rationale and philosophical orientation needed to place physical education in its perspective in the YMCA programmes as a whole, which otherwise had so far emphasized only the spiritual and mental well-being of young people. Gulick was of the belief that the equilateral triangle was an appropriate symbol for portraying the work of the YMCA, because it indicated the three-fold nature of man - mind body and spirit. In March 1891, the trustees of the college officially adopted the triangle. Gulick made every effort to popularize the symbol and to make it acceptable. His attempts to get the inverted triangle accepted as the YMCA symbol at the American National Convention of 1889, 1891 and 1893 were futile. He, however, continued his efforts untiringly by canvassing it among the professionals, and despite resistance, he persisted in his objectives, made 1000 silver YMCA lapel pins and sold them at ten cents each. In 1895, at the Springfield convention, the triangle was at last approved by 182 vote’s fOJ and 56 against the proposal authorizing the acceptance of the inverted triangle as the YMCA symbol. Thereafter it began to gain wide popularity and came to symbolise what YMCA stood for in a most explicit manner. The triangle stands, not for body, mind or spirit, but for the man as a whole. The triangle stands for the symmetrical man, each part developed with reference to the whole, and not merely with reference to itself.