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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    alike ample daily vigorous exercise. Suppose that all the girls could he made to consider this daily lesson as much a matter of course in their studies as anything else. Suppose, again, that there is a teacher familiar with the work and all its require- ments—one who is capable of interesting others, one wlio fully enters into the spirit of it. If such a master or mistress can he found, if the pupils are instructed—whether they he sitting, standing, or walking—to always remain erect, is there any reason why the Vassar girls should not soon have as fine and impressive a carriage as the manly young fellows at the academy across the river, but a few miles distant ? Looking again at the efiect on the mental work, would the daily half-hour of exercise in-doors, and the hour^s constitutional out-doors, in all weathers, if sensibly arranged, interfere one whit with all the intellectual progress the girls could or should make? For, is that a rational system of intel- lectual progress which brings out a bright intellect on a half-developed body, and promises fine things in the future, when the body has had no training adequate to justify the belief that there will be much of any future ? Is not that rather a dear price to pay for such intellectuality ? Hear Herbert Spencer on this point: On women the effects of this forcing system
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