Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1836-11-30
EDUCATION.
Farther Extracts from weld's Report on
Manual Labor.


Manual Labor.
Perhaps it may be objected that pro-
gTess IN study tr0uLd be retarded by
spending three hours day in exercise
II the records Of literary experience fur
nish demonstration in any thing, they
prove thatthos who have spent at least
three hours daily in appropriate exercise,
have prosecuted stud with more success
than those who have exercised less.
Upon the question whether three hours
OF exercise a day would retard stud y, the
following testimony is conclusive. The
A importance Of the question at issue is my
apology for the number and length Of the
extracts which follow
Il have not doubt that three hours a
day, spent in proper bodily exercise, so
TAR from interfering eventually with pro-
gress in the acquisition Of knowledge, of
whatever kind, 1oOuld promote II in a re-
~ important degree. '-Rer. Dr.. Green,
Of Philadelphia.
Il can say, toith the strongest emphasis,
that three hours oil appropriate exercise
each day, roiH not retard progress n stu
dy."-Prof keith, Epis. 1heoi. Semina-
ey, Alexandria.
Three hours each day, aud for some
students, and at some seasons, even four
hours. if properly distributed, so far from
eventually rctarding, would greatly pro-
mote progress in StHdy.-Pr0f Ripley,
Merton Thcol. Seminary.
81 have not the siightest doubt that three
hours day, Systematically devoted to
bodily exercise, would be found to pro-
mote tie intclLeetuRt progress Of students.
by imparing vigor to the poweIs, more
than sufficient to compensate for the loss
a Of t:me"-Rsp DR.. Ware, Cambridge
TAcol Sem.
"Ifmen would be content to divide their
time btween study and labor, and dis
pense with play, Lam con6dem they 'oortd
accelerate their progress in learning BY
thee hours devoted to Labor" -PreSident
Griffin, Williams College.
Three hours spent in exercise each
dly would rather accelerate than re'art
progress in study."-Prcs. Chaplin, Co
l4m6ia Co.., Washington, D. G.
My observation and experience con
vince me that three hours spent each dcy
in appropriate exercise would not retarc
progress in study. "-Prcs Fsl, Yves
leyGn Un;r., Middiet0un, Conn.
by taking three hours from the time
generally devoted to study, the remain
der win acquire an increased value
enough to make up FOR the loss. do no
doubt that this would be verified BY ex
psriment."-Pres. Humphreys, 81. jon"
College, Annapolis Md.
III student wishes 10 gain time 70
stwly that shall be felt for a course c
Years, let him make a law as inviolahl
rs were those of the Modes and Persian
that three hours at least of the twenty
four, shall be devoted TO exercise. Rec
Eiias Cornelius
The effect Of this amount Of exercis
npon "intelect, moral feeling, habits an
haracter, would be most happy. LIE
, i'm who hestates act like philosophe
make the experiment: at first If be ha
rem neglectful OF exercise, he must e,
pect tor a season to pay the penalty Of thj
beglect Il will be irksome, fatiguin3
md he may imagine exhausting TO hi
Rental energies. But gradually both hi
bodily and intellectual system will az
nuire eongeniGt strength, and unite IN d.
eloping the powers Of the whole man
.et the experiment be made faithfully fo
year, and the advocates OF three hours
~ beng devoted to exercise, need NJ
y y the result Rec. T. H. Galauast
hartford, Con.
"Myowu experience answers unhesita
|hgly, that in such case no, only III
-ogress Of the student will not be rstar,
"a, but Il viii be sehsibly and greatly a
tolerated. hold 90 decisive an onin;c
bn the subject, that / am satisfied, Cater
pari5us, a student with three hours exc
ise and nine hours Of study, will accom-
Dish far more in a series Of years than a
tther with fourteen hours study and ,
xercise n--Hon. T. S. GTimke, Charlt
on, s. C. NJ @@ "
safer an experiment Of twenty yea
IN teaching the higher branches, L c
say without hesitation that j have neT
,Oitnessed sueh rapid progress IN study
that which has been made by the mani
labor students ofthis college. "-Presidc
Cossitt, Cumberland College, Ky.
1T is well known fact in this sernir
ty, that since systematic exercise, in 6
erent ways especially in the corksh'
pas been Prh;ticed,the health Of the 8
swesiy.sss ] .aall part Or MI wei
psoof.-ED. rst- ~7I-,.fs1