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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    pliysically improved by it^ it is not certain that this marked development will carry them onward throug-h life to a ripe old age. But, with others indifferently developed, there will be many more positively weak. Such men may have bright, uncommon heads. Yes; but a bright and uncom- mon head on a broken-down, or nearly broken- down, body is not going to make half as effective a man in the life-race as a little duller head and a good deal better body. But have these graduates had a competent instructor at college to look after them in this respect ? Will some one name a college where they have such an instructor ? or a school where, instead of building the pupil up for the future, more has been done than to insure his present health ? One or two such there may be, but scarcely more than one or two. Take even the student who has devoted the most time to severe muscular exercise—the rowing-man, not the l^eginner, but the veteran of a score or more of races, who has been rowing all his four college years as regularly and almost as often as ho dined. Certainly it will not be claimed that his is not a well-developed body, or that his permanent health is not insured. Let us look a little at him and see. What has he done ? He entered college at eighteen, and is the son, say, of a journalist or of a
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