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...minimum of time, and effects plainly to be measured, seen, and felt. Dr. Sargent, of Cambridge, is the most successful among the new trainers, and the results are certainly remarkable. Given the necessary apparatus and the skilled teacher, there seems to be constant gain in both interest and vigor...
...given to physical training during the same years that are given to mental training? Why is not a certain portion of a college student's day devoted profitably to athletic exercise, not only as a relaxation from the work of the mind, but also as a means of acquiring vigor for future use? The pursuit of athletic exercise in some form or other has always taken a portion of the time of many college students; but not until within the last decade has it been suggested that athletics were not only not a benefit, but were a positive evil...
...stronghold while Johnston was away on the outside. Desperate assaults on the city failed and the army settled down to a prolonged siege. This lasted over a month. Reinforcements came to Grant and he was thus enabled to hold off Johnston while he pressed the siege with vigor...
...general oxordium to the recently published Inter-Collegiate Athletic Regulations omitted from the telegraphic report is as follows: "The object of physical training is to confirm health, correct morbid tendencies, strengthen weak parts, give a symmetrical muscular development, and secure as far as possible a condition of perfect physical vigor. In order to accomplish these desirable ends, young men are encouraged to take exercise, and to enter into the general practice of athletic sports and games. If, however, the object of physical training be lost sight of, and the desire to win the championship, or to attain the highest degree...
...student should allow the years of his college life to pass without an increase of manly physical vigor. He should graduate, proud of his physique as well as of his mental attainments. His future success depends upon both these factors, and only narrowness of mind or of training is shown in the neglect of either. Whoever thinks to magnify his intellect by neglecting or belittling his body, is as wise as he who expects fruit without vines...