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Medieval surgeons and barbers believed in the equation, corpus sanum=mens sana. This thought did not die with the Renaissance, for it is perpetuated today in Harvard athletics. Every year, in the belief that intellectual superiority and athletic interest go hand in hand, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences pours hundreds of thousands of dollars into the undergraduate sports program...
...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...
...Greeks spent years, nay lives, to win a race or 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...
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