Central High School - EN EM Yearbook (North Manchester, IN)

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24 MAPLE LEAVES. when he came to open his locker to dress he had forgotten the combination. This is only one of many instances which might be given. Hence we are justified in believing that the building up of cells in one center aids weaker cells in another. We might expect one with rich motor centers to learn better, other things being equal, than the student whose brain has a poor motor area. There is a very intimate connection between muscularity and mentality. Animals which have the greatest latitude of movements have the largest brains and best intellects. The parrot stands preeminent in this respect, having an unusual movement of tongue, head, beak and legs. The monkey, on account of his muscularity approaches nearest to man in the size of his brain and his intelligence. Further, we find that co-ordinate movements are first made in the brain and that skill, as such, has its seat in the central system. There is no such a thing as manual skill, if by this we place skill in the muscles. A muscle has in itself no more power to perform work than a hammer. We also find that the more complicated the movements. just so much more complete is the brain development, and the readier it is to lend its strength to other parts of the encephalon. This one argument is of sufficient worth to make a place for a rational sch. ine of gymnastics in our public schools. Take as typical instances of stamina, two prominent Americans’ who are remarkable from the standpoint of mental and physical prowess, Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Bryan. Aside from any possible political prejudices. we can but admire the tremendous vitality of these two men, two sturdy, stocky, indefatigable workers, defying hunger and loss of sleep, and working as no day laborer ever dreamed of toiling, and yet recuperating in a miraculous manner. The average athlete in training could not equal what they did during the last presidential campaign. Were we to select men who might approximate to their work, we should look to the foot ball players, to the crew men, or to the best boxers and wrestlers. Hence we see how' a well developed and quick acting body stimulates with a fresh influx of blood the quick action of a clear mind—a necessary factor for success in the present day of cultivated competition. This is one of the reasons why the greater number of important state and city offices are filled by the country youth of well poised mind and body. Then again, rivalry in athletic sports has inci-dently, while training for supremacy, established a proper wray of living and has showrn the importance and benefit of a proper diet. Its moral tendencies are also to be noticed. For the Y. M. C. A. leagues and the captains of crewr teams have often shown young men their moral weaknesses, such as the tobacco and alcohol habits, and their influence has been the direct cause of the remedying these defects in many cases where temperance societies and ministers have entirely failed. The love of these out-door sports, the social side of team or gymnasium work is a marked incentive to a great many students. Here the backward farmer lad enjoys the companionship of his fellows and first begins to realize that there is a place for him, by virtue of his sturdy muscles. In the ball room of the college gymnasium or on the basket ball field the girls of all classes associate and enjoy each other’s company, as if there were no upper, lower and middle “cliques’ in college society. But w'hat has this to do w'ith the student’s mind or mental output? Simply this, that since it affords him beneficial amusement and gives his mind the satisfaction w'hich he craves it leaves him better able to pursue his studies. For it is a well knowrn fact that a restless and dissatisfied mind results in unsatisfactory wrork. Then I know of cases even in the smaller schools in which this incentive has actually kept students in school. The skeptic here might say that a student who cares no more for his course than this might as well be out of school. This sounds very well, but such is not the case. It is not practical, for there come times in every student’s life w'hen things look gloomy—that first freshman day, for instance—and as long as his moral standard is not lowered any method of bridging him over the chasm is certainly to be commended. In this connection should be mentioned the policy in colleges of compelling students to reach a specified standard of good work before they can “make” the teams which play official match games. This spur has resulted in many students decidedly improving their work. Dr. D. A. Sargent, Professor of Physical Training at Harvard, in a paper read before the Public Health Association of America, said: “Students enter college trained in mind but not in body; and wrhere one fails for want of mental ability , ten break down for wrant of physical stamina. Under an appropriate system of physical training, however, they make most rapid advancement, showing that their bodies have been kept in arrears, while their brains were developed. Not infrequently the students wrho stood highest in the preparatory schools are taken with a sort of mental dyspepsia after entering college, and devote most of their energies to physical exercises.” Athletics have come to be a study; no longer simply a diversion from study. Taking Yale as typical, we see that the larger schools now require a specified amount of time to be spent every w'eek in the gymnasium, just as they do in the laboratory or recitation room. Therefore, in view' of w'hat the history of athletics teaches, to secure the greatest happiness by striving to obtain the fullest development, let us hold as our inviolable standard, the Latin precept, “Sans mens in sani corpore.”

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