Show I 1 TIMELY Y TOPICS j THE HABIT OF LIVING I The beet beat directors at Yale have an ath- ath ideaL It Jt Is Js Is n not t to o. o turn out teams a and crews that will win all the win championships so much as to lead ead every man in Jn the university to make adequate use of the university's considerable athletic This be may abstract notion or seem seon so Amherst ha has haa It In the concrete We know what is Js meant by It dt t When we read that of or students at Amherst are aTe training as athletes That is 91 per cent The Ideal Is per cent However convinced the Intelligent man may be that systematic dally daily exercise is his readiest means mean of building a body that will withstand the shocks and ills and germs that Infest our mortal life ife he nevertheless doesn't enthuse over solitary athletics He Us is s apt to hear only the call of the team the contest When he comes to a college in which practically everybody Is participating in athletics he will do the same from prom example and competition and the thrill o of ot tho the strife If It he he participates sanely and systematically through four years or more of or college life he will leave college e with th the athletic habit pretty And this it must be b admitted is by no means the least Important value of the college experience It Is the habit of living Just what is means by that The meaning meaning- is that we live not by bread alone but by so exercising the body so stimulating the muscles by py y action that they are at their most efficient degree They go far to make the souna sound body jody in which the sound mind should dwell The habIt of ot keeping the muscles that muscles that is 18 the body body body- tit fit Is the habit of r life lite for It Is the habit that will make abundant life lite Noting can teach tha haM so eo sowell sowell well as the college and the best college is la the one that teaches it New best New Haven Register |