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Show TOO MUCH STUDY FOR CHILDREN. CHIL-DREN. Boston is exercising itH mind, just now, over tho hours of study in its Latin school. Complaint has been mado that tho continuous study from Monday morning until Saturday night was uioro than tho boys could bear, and a sort of Joint High Commission of tho several school committees of the city was called into decido upon the merits of tho case. Opinion appeared to bo pretty evenly divided whether a holiday should bo allowed on Saturday, and, while one gentleman gentle-man assorted that Boston schools wcro dyspepsia factories, Dr. Dio Lewis said that late hours and late suppers had quite as much to do with breaking down the boys as severe study. Thero is but littlo question that the in judicious system ot cramming, too often adopted by ambitious parents, is exceedingly injudicious to the children under their charge, and is, in every way, to be discountenanced. A certain amount of oxygen is necessary to the enjoyment of perfect health, and certainly cer-tainly this oxygen cannot be obtained I in the close atmosphere of the schoolroom school-room or the study. Boys and girls should not only bo permitted, but encouraged, en-couraged, to take as much outdoor exercise ex-ercise as possible. While not neglecting tho mental, pay due attention to the physical requisites of life; thus will they grow to years of maturity mentally men-tally and physically strong. S. F. Bulletin. |