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...Bock's report on the continuation of compulsory physical exercises for student waiters embodies one important concession, which answers effectively the old argument that student waiters have not sufficient time to meet the Freshman physical requirements. In the future the exercise rules for all Freshmen will be abolished during the week before November hours, midyear and final examinations. This will allow three weeks before examinations and six weeks during the Exam periods, in which Freshmen may rejoice in stolid inactivity, with only a book in their hands to make the red corpuscles multiply or to get fresh...
...Bock also stated, drawing facts from the available statistics on the subject, that Freshman waiters for the last three years have done better scholastically than other Freshmen with the same admission averages, and that the percentage of failures were fewer. It is a well known fact that men who have a steady job or outside activity, such as managerial work, literary competitions, or even national youth movements, do much better on the average than those who merely eat and sleep their way through Harvard...
...Bock stated that regular periods of exercise have helped rather than hindered many men through a difficult period of readjustment. An enjoyable physical activity relieves the mind of worry, and by its healthful effect renders the actual study hours more efficient...
Upshot of the controversy over the question of whether student waiters should be required to take compulsory athletics during their Freshman year, Arlie V. Bock, Henry K. Oliver Professor of Hygiene, yesterday announced that those men should be required to exercise, but that he had arranged that all Freshmen be allowed to skip exercise one week before and all during November hours, midyears and finals...
...Bingham's report brings into the limelight again the perplexing question of the emphasis to be placed upon inter-collegiate football at Harvard. Dr. Bock's opinion that the period of practice should in the interests of health be lengthened by an earlier opening in September seems to give the university two alternatives with regard to this question. Either this extension, with its resulting emphasis upon football, must be adopted in the hope of averting injuries, or the strain upon the athletes must be relieved by a reduction in the number of games...