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...development of the heart and lungs does not correspond, and therefore the excess of energy in one direction is offset by the loss in another. Neither do the best physiques come from the city, but, in general, from the large towns, where the advantages of pure air, out-door freedom and the absence of severe manual labor are combined. In this connection he remarked that, for a college student of the present day to spend his summer vacation working on a farm during haying and harvesting, and all the time subjecting a body unaccustomed to this sort of work...
...covered with ridicule. During the past fifteen years a wonderful change in the undergraduate life has taken place. The sleep of the Cambridge citizen was once broken by the uproarious singing of students in the streets. Now it is very rare to hear any boisterous midnight singing - such out-door singing as there is being confined to the college yard, where it seems appropriate and pleasant. The old tricks upon property are now unheard of. Professors are no longer the natural enemy of the student. The old 'cane-rushes' and terrible foot-ball fights are no more...
...higher schools of the country shall be made to play games. The physical condition of the pupils is not what German opinion would have it. While the boys are proficient in their studies, they are weak, listless and unenterprising. The remedy is to be sought by official direction in out-door games requiring skill and agility. The words of Dr. Crosby would have had more weight had they been less sweeping. He spoke like an extremist...
...games. For some time public opinion in Germany has been much exercised about the physical condition of the boys; they were good scholars, but listless; inactive, unenterprising, often appallingly short-sighted. A remedy is to be sought not only in gymnastics but in cricket and foot-ball and other out-door games requiring skill and agility. It is a wise ruling...
...urgent call of many students of the university, the Glee Club and Pierian will give another out-door concert in the yard this evening. All members of both clubs are earnestly requested to be on the steps of Matthews at 7.30 sharp...