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...Body and spirit are indivisible-both are essential parts of man. The former was given to the latter as a necessary instrument without which it cannot act. They are two halves of the same being, and their harmonious development s conducive to human perfection. For the term of their earthly pilgrimage they are more inseparable and more independent than the horse and its rider. Hence we must improve. strengthen, enrich and harmonize the powers of the physical organism before we can reasonably expect to see aptitude, energy, talent and learning grow on the tree of life. That alone...
...midst of living models formed by the games of the palaestra and the exercises of the gymnasium and the stadium that the art of sculpture, full of the divine thought, begot the Apollo of Belvidere. The Greek idea, that body and mind work together and that it cannot be well with the one if it be ill with the other, might seem an axiom whose self-evidence could be questioned only in a fit of insane infatuation. Yet for ages the truth was lost sight of, and indeed was supplanted by the antagonistic error, namely, that if we would cultivate...
...happen to receive this very day a letter from South Carolina which contains a passage so apropos that I cannot help quoting it. The writer speaks of a student, of I know not what Southern college, who is in the house. "I asked him about the tone of honor among them. He said a man he knew from near here cheated in his Latin examination. It was known to the other men, who told their friends, and the fellow was dropped completely. He had no friends-all cut him-and at last he could stand it no longer, so cleared...
...special sleeve button cannot become loose in the cuff, yet it is inserted or taken out most easily...
...gaining little or no advantage from it. The cause for this lack of interest and competition seems to lie in the fact that the contests are held on Saturday afternoons. A large majority of men leave Cambridge on Saturday afternoon to spend Sunday with families or friends, and cannot attend the contests, either as spectators or competitors. We would suggest that the meetings be held on some evening in the middle of the week, when, undoubtedly, there would be a great increase in the interest and attendance. If, after the mid-years, this should be done, a large number...