How to get strong and how to stay so / by William Blaikie.

  • William Blaikie
Date:
1892
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Credit: How to get strong and how to stay so / by William Blaikie. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the cities to supervise this branch of education, and see that the teachers are thoroughly qualified. Let the scholar understand that his body can be trained exactly as well as his mind, and that the sound health of both is intimately connected with having it so trained. Let the school-hours be so arianged that ten minutes in the middle of the morning session, and again in the afternoon, shall be allotted to this branch. See what Maclaren did for the Eadley and Magdalen boys in one hour a iveek! seo what Sargent did in our country for two hundred youth in two hours a week, and with wooden dumb-bells, very light clubs, and a few pulley- weights at that! Let people at once and for ever get rid of the notion that this exercise is a mere j3lay-spell, or that it is only good to make athletes or acrobats. It is as much a branch of education as any taught in our schools to-day; and who will question that, if such uniform and splendid pro- gress was made in each school as was made in the cases just cited, and in different instances, with at first such unpromising pupils, the brief twenty minutes daily so spent would be as well spent and as valuable to each pupil as any other twenty or thirty minutes of his day ? It should no more be allowed to interfere with their usual See page 140. 2 See pages 291, 292.
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