Word: sana
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...people who come to our churches to hear the music, if they won't come to hear the sermon. And it can be truly said that to these Harvard gives every opportunity of improving their physical constitution, if they won't take the advantages offered their mental powers. Mens sana in corpore sano, should be Harvard's second motto. With its splendid Hemenway gymnasium, fitted out with everything in the way of athletic apparatus that human ingenuity has devised, its ball fields and running tracks, it is no wonder that Harvard, drawing from its sixteen hundred students, all of whom...
...them for exercise of the body, as well as of the mind * * * * from Harvard, with its magnificent Hemenway Gymnasium, down to the smallest "fresh water" college, we note a steady improvement in this all-important branch of culture. Evidently we are soon to realize the time-worn maxim, mens sana in corpore sano...
...standstill. No exercise means necessarily a falling off of bodily strength, while a comparatively small amount of energetic physical exercise each day will develop muscle and produce good bodily health. Men who seek mental superiority and neglect the condition of their bodies seem to forget the Latin phrase, "mens sana in sano corpore...
...throw a wrestler, we seem, in comparison, to have paid but little attention to the training of our bodies. To the Greeks, especially, of all people, the primary requisite for success in public and private life was a corpus sanum, without which the use to them of the mens sana was gone. Thus, in training their bodies, did Pericles, Demosthenes and nearly every Greek whose name and fame have been handed down to posterity, begin their work in life...
...large attendance is now noted at the gymnasium, as well as at the library. "Mens sana in corpore sano...