| Show THERE seems to be a natural te tendency tendency tend tend- dency d- d ency in man to go to extremes to magnify the importance of one particular lar notion and follow it out out outto to the exclusion exclusion I sion of other things equally important This may be noticed among men of ot almost every business and profession The lawyer will neglect to take his meals at proper hours and will work when when he ought to be sleeping in order M that he may enjoy life in his riper years But when that time comes he can enjoy neither his life nor his money and would be glad to change chang the latter for the health and vigor of his youth The merchant will spend all his days in the counting house making a fortune for the benefit of his children forgetting that unless they learn how to spend it it may prove to be a curse rather than thana a blessing The student as well as the man of the world is liable to make this same error He is apt to become so absorbed in his daily tasks that he will neglect all else The necessity of moral and social training has been commented on in the CHRONICLE but there is another important thing that should be attended to the needs of the body physical development is needful that the body may be he kept in perfect health That which strengthens and invigorates the body also prepares the mind to do more effectual and persistent work Indeed success in in any pursuit is extremely difficult for one who is troubled with bodily ailments But even en if the student student student stu stu- dent does keep up his vigor long enough to take out a degree if he has neglected the principles of hygiene his constitution constitution tion will necessarily have become weakened and he will be able to accomplish accomplish accomplish far less Jess than the one who has taken a little more time but has obtained obtained ob ob- physical as well as mental de- de Yet even this may be carried to an extreme as is shown by the records of many eastern colleges There students sometimes become so interested in their athletics that they neglect study almost entirely It has become quite customary for football teams to travel from one place to another engaging in public contests which of course necessitates their spending practically all their time in training and preparation tion The president president president dent of Harvard has recently decided that their teams shall play no more games outside of Cambridge and that in inthe inthe inthe the home games slugging and brutality shall cease or foot-ball foot shall be abol abol- It is also ordered that dramatic and musical clubs shall not give entertainments entertainments enter enter- enter s in other cities than their own own showing that some are giving too much r attention to to the social side of college life to the detriment of their intellectual t advancement 1 t The conditions here are very different different different differ differ- ent instead of restraining orders we need constantly to be stimulated to action There are more students who fail through want of physical recreation than from any other cause Of course this means not those who do not care for intellectual advancement but stu stu- dents We are in need of a little more college ollege spirit But let it be judiciously controlled Take a proper amount of tithe time for social and physical recreation and we will be able to work harder and accomplish more mare even in our purely intellectual intellectual in in- pursuits we will become better better better bet bet- ter happier and stronger men and women women wo wo- men Let study recreation and amusements amusements amuse amuse- l ments ment be so arranged as to produce a af as s f perfectly symmetrical development phyl physically physically phy- phy l intellectually and morally f t |
