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...pleasant to note how the more rational and intelligent portion of the outer world are disposed to deprecate any undue excess in the present reaction against the "epidemic" of athleticism in our American colleges. The absurd strictures of such men as Dr. Crosby seem to meet with little approval save from the so-called religious press. The standpoint of the Nation and of other representative journals on the matter seems to be generally accepted as the more reasonable one. It cannot be doubted that the utterances of such men as President Eliot and President Barnard in favor of college athletics...
...wearing dress suits at examinations certainly has little to commend it, and is open to many serious objections. If the wearing of dress suits were confined to "proctors" or ushers at Yale, it might not be so objectionable, but when this practice is carried to such a gross excess as it is at Harvard, it seems high time to cry Halt, and to make a stand against it. Absurd as it may seem, there is no doubt that the practice will presently be laid to the charge of Harvard "snobbishness," and, therefore, although the reform is open to the almost...
...advantage to a healthy student, unless now and then, socially, in the intervals of mental labor. "I have never smoked," Matthew Arnold writes, "and have always drunk wine - chiefly claret. As to the use of wine, I can only speak for myself. Of course, there is the danger of excess; but a healthy nature and the power of self-control being pre-supposed, one can hardly do better, I should think, than 'follow nature' as to what one drinks and its times and quantity. I suppose most young people could do as much without wine as with it. Real brain...
...Sargent said that the idea prevalent that the strongest men come from the country is an erroneous one, as, although certain bones and muscles of those accustomed to manual labor are larger and stronger, yet the 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...
...summarize, we may say that the athletes devote too much time to the development of special powers, and sometimes carry their exercises to excess; that the sporting men rely upon their inheritance, physical and financial, and make no attempt to renew their capital; that the scholars, as a class, take too little exercise; and that the idlers take no exercise at all. When we consider the relative numbers in these several classes in all our colleges, it is safe to conclude that, of the whole number of students, not more than ten per cent. give any attention whatever to physical...