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...scholarship at Harvard is not all that it should be, the reason is easy of discovery. By and large those who eat do not study hard, and those who would study hard apparently do not eat and thus lack the corpus sanum necessary to the mens sana. But nobody who recognizes that Memorial Hall now stands with outstretched clammy arms, singing siren songs to "foodless" Harvard, can think that there are not places enough...
...Committee appointed at Portland last September was headed by Dr. Edward S. Cowles, director of the Park Avenue "body and soul" hospital. Announcement is now made that the " National Association for the Advancement of Scientific Healing," has been formed with Dr. Cowles at the head. Its motto is mens sana in corpore sano. Officers are William G. McAdoo, George Gordon Battle, Samuel Untermyer, Miss Margaret Woodrow Wilson, Rev. J. Howard Melish. Thomas A. Price is Secretary and Edward H. Coy (captain and fullback at Yale in 1909) is Treasurer...
...proposes to drive upper class men under the Freshman yoke of compulsion. But the old ideal of "mens sana in corpore sano" is one which a certain proportion of students will always overlook. Time is limited; the man for whom exercise is now particular pleasure does not always find it easy break into the afternoon for a game of tennis or squash or a row on the river; often, too, it is difficult to find partners or facilities. The temptation of the easiest way is to let exercise slip, or to put up with the old-man's expedient...
...needs of an army officer; these are given the cadet. The rest of his time is devoted to learning the duties of his profession, horsemanship, marksmanship, drills of the different branches of the service, athletics, and all the other attributes of an efficient, well-trained soldier. Mens sana in corpore sano--a sound mind in a sound body--is West Point's aim. Its whole curriculum is directed toward the accomplishment of that...
...Mens sana in corpore sano"--or, as the translators will have it. "A sound mind in a sound body"--is a much-slighted adage during the mid-year period. It is disagreeable weather; and fourteen hours of tinkering the mind to a state of pseudo-soundness, seems to please us better than thirteen hours on the mind and one on the body, which more closely follows the wisdom of the adage. To fulfill the sound body there is an excellent and informal exercising class, open to all, previous experience unnecessary, in the Gymnasium daily at 5 o'clock. It requires...