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muscular t:nt:rgy, but for successive mt:ntal <:nergy, and thus neglecting to take the ·daily muscular exercise which
contributed so much to his succe~s at school, and working his brain at the expense of what reserYe he has accu·
mulalt:d, it is not long before his surplus energv is exhausted and he becomes a nen·ous wreck, a Yictim of
dyspe1hia and kindred diseases: when, if he had taken a daily walk of two or three miles, a half hour's training
of all the muscles of the body on some good exerciser, together with cold morning baths, and had so regulated his
business as to make his hours of eating and sleeping regular, success would ha\·e crowned all his efforts, and the
full measure of years accorded to man in the enjoyment of good health would ha\·e been allotted to him.
To our students we would say, to physical trainmg you may attribute no inconsiderable portion of your
success while here, and your future good health and success will be found in so ordering your life's work that the
different sources of eneq.,') in the body may be exercised harmoniously-brain and muscle each in their proper
proportion, and not one at the expense of the other. \\'e have seen nunu:rous physical wrecks strewn on the
beach of the business world all the way frum one and two years out of college clear to nearly the end of life's
journey whose downfall was directly attributable -to a disobedience of natural laws affecting the human body,
which require muscular de\·elopment e\·en 1110rt: than brain developnu:nt to secure a pleasant, enjoyable and
successful life.

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