Word: out-door
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...gymnasium at Girard College should not have been closed even temporarily. The education it supplies is as important as that given in any other department of the college. The students may have sufficient out-door exercise, but when the gymnasium is not open they must lack the systematic physical training which can only be had under a competent instructor. When the master of this branch is ill his place should be supplied, just as would be the place of any other professor under the same circumstances...
...training on the various teams and of the time actually devoted by them to athletics. Continuing he says: "It would be putting the estimate too low to say that at least half of the undergraduate members of the academic and scientific departments get quite a regular amount of systematic out-door exercise from, or in consequence of, the present system of college athletics. It is no argument against the system that all the members of the university do not take advantage of it. The need of exercise is met, and opportunities for regular and systematic exercise are given, with inducements...
...crews such as Col. Bancroft, nor wouldn't oppose the employment as permanent trainer of the other teams of any satisfactory and competent man, even if a professional who had abandoned his "profession" as a means of livelihood, and in future should exclusively devote himself to teaching out-door athletics under the employment and supervision of the college...
...cold weather approaches and the out-door world offers fewer and fewer attractions, we wish to submit a little advice to eighty-seven in particular and to the college in general that will be borne in mind all through the long winter and for that matter all through college. Get into the habit of using the library in a thoughtful, systematic, healthful way. It is comparatively easy to form habits that do not bring one into contact with books and especial care should be taken to correct this fault at the outset. Some special courses of reading as fiction...
...then, too, rifle-shooting is a sport which is as yet free from all taint of professionalism; it is a sport which is free from the dangerous overexertion which renders foot-ball and boating objectionable to many; and it is also a means whereby many men can obtain invigorating out-door exercise, who are debarred by inferior physique from engaging in the muscular sports, though it must be well understood that no man can hope to become a good shot unless his muscles have been well hardened by exercise, and his nerve got into good form by steady living...