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Show Unfortunate Trend to Flabbiness of Thinking It has been said a good many times over, in this generation as in others, but President HIbben of Princeton did well to remind the students of his university that they should be on their guard against a flabby mind. Just as watchfully as against flabby muscles. The old Roman wio spoke for "a sound mind in a sound body" put the mind first, let us remember mens " sana In corpore sano but in our modern quotation of the saying we are almost always throwing the emphasis em-phasis on the body. As civilization beaomes more and more complex, the flabby mind, unequal to the task of taking up an important problem of life and thinking it throush, becomes be-comes more and more perilous, both to its' possessor and to others who may be obliged In any way to depend de-pend upon the judgment of that possessor. pos-sessor. Certainly no one should be more watchful than the student, Columbus Dispatch. |