Sr. VIATEURs
COLLEGE ·JOURNAL.
LE~TIO CERTA:PRO~E~T.
VARIA DELECTAT.Seneca.
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VOL. I.
BOURBONNAIS GROVE, ItL. FRIDAY, SeDt. 28· 1883.
No. 11
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PfiYSiCAL EXERCISE. \ himself down by the chaiL; of ~od~rn . restheticism: in . Erluc:~.tion considered in its general acceptance may fact because he is no "dude;" h'is shape-and-form almost be di vifl,ed ~JJ.to three classes, n:.tmely: moral,· intellectual entirely depending on his "tight pants ~nd angular and· phy~ical. shoes." ~ es, because he has not spent his lifetime build1 The first pert\! ins to the growth of mnn ·in s~mc'tit.)f, - ing castles in the· air bP-side some rustLe scho,ol hedge, anri virtue ,~he second to the development of his· braiJl dreaming the happy hours away, like s.o me of our mo1 power, the thin~ to. the development of the humft.n body-; dern votaries of fashion, but prefered the open boundless Though the fir.st two cl:1sse3 are unrl.oubtedly th ~ phtins where he could perpetually breathe the pu;e ~lr highest. still it C'\11 not l.>e g:tins'l.id but th::It the' l:.ist: of heaven. L:tbor enobles, slothfulness debases man. is also of great importance< . \ Now in an institution such as this our moral education 1\hn being com,posed .. of body and soul; and· -these\ is carefully guarded by the good· priests th~t hay,:e clinging together ~ith . more tenacity th:~.n ·the vinei charge over us-our intellects are daily trained to doe;; to the tow.e l'in" 0 t'i, ne7\ect of one almost imbibe the principles Of knowledge-but the devei• produces a neglect of..,the other."' Hence it is th:~.t · a·man 1 opment of the physical portion is left solely in our own of c~mplete . educ~~iop., whose moral intellectual and hands. For this purpose extensive Ball Grounds, . Ball phystc1.l powers are fully developed- c.'\u scarcely be 1 Alleys, Horizontal B3.rs and so on are fitted up, so that founrl., though there seemingly, should be m1.ny. while enjoying ourselves we may . at the same ·tim·e 1t is a wdl known ftct th1.t physic·tl exercise, m:~.nn1.l increase the elasticity and growth of the muscles. Yet hbor is as neces~ary for mrm as relaxation from the · how often, when going QUt into the "Campus" do ~e s1.~e, to preserve :-t sound constitution,:~. health.v system find many boys lounging around the fences, _stretching which sh ed! contain both vigor anrl. strengtn::--themselves out like some gray-haired octogenarians and · · Statistics of the .mort1.lity of various clR-sses in any sighing about the heat ot the day-the monotony of ~ountry phinly show. tint men of physic~! activity, of college life, the severity of a certain professor, etc. It is m·mu~l hbor, even in c I.Ses where such is deemed ·too a shmne to see young men with the warm blood of life 0ppressi ve, are he:t!thier and less prone to the thousand coursing in their veins acting in thi~ manner. As · the diseases thfl-t hnm·u1 wttureis heir to and consequently Dormitory is the place to sleep, as the Study Hall .is liv e to a gre:1.ter age th:1.n those of sedentfl.ry h:1.bits and the place for application to lessons, so the · "camp~s" custo~s. No m1.tter wh:tt we·1.lth m1.y furnish to.sti mulate is the place to play. None shou ld ever be found sitting the body, no m:1.t~r how wftly we mfl.y reclin-e on the around idle unless there be g-ood reasons, as such · a:·1 hp of luxury, no 1_n :ttter wh~t charms pleasures may manner of proceeding will eventually prove injurious. · throw in our p'lth, all these sink into insignificance, A good student is one that not merely 'i~r~s .his · comparerl with _th'l.t n~tural freshness of youth, the lessons but one ·who also takes an active' part . in . all result of physical exercise. . college exercises, that have for their object .his b~n~fit.' What nobler speci~e~ of what we speak can be found ' his ultimate success. Sickly, weak bodies, the result, as tharl the development of the body of the American a rule of sedentary habits, can never be expected to !~dian. ;fali, s~raight and erect cradled among the leafy contain a clear souud intellect; because as Horace says; brnn.ches f!J-nned by ~u rn mer gaies, his youth and manh(•Od "Alter alterius opem postulat"-and such mfiln, when spent in the chase, t'n hunting and fishing, climbing at brought in cout.'tct with tbe rough and hard-he~rt~d one time the rugged rQcks _and cliffs, at another, pad- · world, when intermingled wltli its active inbabi~nts, dring h.is '.canoe -~ith the ,.eye of a conuoisseur down shudder at their own weakness, their want of vital some 'urging rapids-he is the man we find, when old age . power which they once possessed but which they lost comes around, still more capable of fighting the battles · through their want ot energy. . · The ! 'Journal" strongly urges all to be busy at all of the world than our hardiest regular. And why ? Because he h!U! followed the laws of nature, has not tied times in the Study Hall or out of it, ns laziness is one
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