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

  • William Blaikie
Date:
1892
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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    American boys does almost nothing to fit the average boy for even the simpler work of the gym- nasium^ let alone its more advanced steps. Often, in the university gymnasium, you will see fellows actually so weak in the arms that they can hardly get up in the parallel bars, and rest their weight on their hands alone, much less go through them clear to the other end. It is a pretty suggestive commentary on the way these establishments are conducted that the men so lamentably deficient are by no means all from the new comers, but often those who have nearly completed their course. Yet here is a school which, rightly used, would do the average student more good, and would fit him better for his life’s duties, than any other one branch in the whole curriculum. But a few years since a son of a lawyer of national reputation, a highly gifted youth, made a most brilliant record at one of our best known colleges. All who knew him conceded him a distinguished future; and yet he was hardly well out of college when he took away his life. Had there been a reasonable, sensible allowance of daily muscular work, had the overtaxed brain been let rest awhile, and vigour cultivated in other di- rections, the rank, the general average, might have been a trifle lower, but a most efficient man saved for a long and honourable life. And yet every col-
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