Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1836-10-12
EDUCATIoN.
Fa4fher EXTRACTS from weld's Report ON
.~-rs#@N~@ Manual Labor.

e. a EDUCATlON. ..,.
Fa+ther EXTRACTS from weld's Report ON
s--FsaEs~@ Manual labor.
I'VE rive but q moiety Of the proof which
Mr.. Weld has collected and arranged under the
different heads. His treatment Of the subject
discovers great researeh1
Il. The PREsENT system OF EDU-
CATION MAKES FEARFUL HAVOC OF
HEALTH AND LIFE
IL this position is deemed untenable,
the following testimony will sufficiently
fortify it,
"fhe waste Of health, and strength,
and life, which is daily going on among
the youth Of talent and high promise in
every part Of our land. is enough to make
any intelligent observer weep."-Reu.
DR.. Miller, Princeton TAeOl. Sem.
Youth at most public seminaries are
liable to become so efeminate, as to be
rendered, without some subsequent change
of habit, utterly unfit for any manly en-
terprise or employment. How frequent
~, too, do they fall victims to this i'll
lined system OF tenderness and seclu-
sion. "-Prssident LindsLeys Inaugural
Address
my experience as a student, and also
as an instructor, has long since convinced
me that at least nine out of ten, among
dihgent, industrious students, have, in
= greater or less degree. suffered the loss of
health. by intense application to study,
and want of proper exercise, When l
look over the catalogues Of those institu-
tions with which, as a student and an in
structor, have been acquainted, and col
lect together all those whose talents and
application once promised extensive use
fulness to the church and the world, my
spirit mourns, my heart bleeds in contem-
plating the painful certainty that so large
a proportion have either already fallen
victims to a mistaken regimen, or only
live to drag out miserable existence,
and admonish the world to profit by their
fnournful example. In short, cannot
but consider literary institution, which
makes no provision for the regular exer-
else Of its students, no better than nsaa'
Efaetory Of inValids, and the slaughter.
GouH of tnItiDated talent. Presidenl
CossitL Cumberland College, Ky.
1.-The neglect Of exercise has been the
ruin Of thousands of literary men, and
has deprived our country Of some Of its
richest ornaments."-ProtessOr SeIOall
Medical College, Washington, ID. C.
... 81 have never made an estimate of the
proportion Of close students, who &c
Ahrough an entire course of study, with
out injury Of their health in a greater oil
-r less degree. They are very few, l ar
sure; and / am not certain that could
name single exception. "-Rsu. DR.
Green, Philadelphia.
"My opinion is, that not a solitary in
a diUidnal Of the above description [clos,
"a students, who go through a thorough
counsel can be found, whose health is no
impaired in some degree" -Presiden
Chaplin, Wdteruilie College. -
For those who have not felt the sal
evidence Of this ia years of debility, II j
sufficient to point to the numbers of liters
W men, who are annually obliged to o
-bandon their pursuits, either partially o
entirely, because the body is incapable c
sustaining the mind in its efforts. The
need only observe the mulhtudes of 9th
Vers, who with ample intellectual prepars
"a tons maintain with difficulty an arti6ci,
-eand painful existence, and whose physic;
debility prevents them from explorin
depths OF science, and soaring to heigh
"a of speculation, which they feel to be witt
.aeintheir grasp. but pant in vain to reach.
Amer. JOHr. of Education.
$50 far as my personal observation ha
extended. / should consider 1t perfect
safe to say, that Hrse fourths of our dill
ID gent students impair their health by il
- sufficient exercise, and probably it won
be nearer the truth TO call the nroportic
nine tenths"--Rer. 7homas IT. Gala
.dett, Hartford, CT
~ Upwards Of thu hundred your
.siamen have been receiySldt this institute,
ag7.during the above mentioned period Ifou
q teen searsl Eight of these died bsfo
aznfbey finished their education. Sevente
= Others left the institution with their heal
so much impaired that they were oblig
-. to abandon their course, and twepty-se
en- more materially injured their heal
"a by the neglect ofregular exercise; VIII
yss1a greater number have sustained q l
AEi1I injury. n--Rep. DR.. Kendrick, Profess
50, Hamilton 7Rsol. Sem. ~ Y.
- aThe mischief done by this pervel
mode of education is Uncomfortable.
has been the grand source Of bodily
activity, voluptuous weakness, edemi
u cy,. multitude Of diseases and IN sh
go An inmeasurable portion Of our sudsfin
''sWha shsn'shallwe sayof . mode Of
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