The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-02-15
PHYSICAL EDUCATION

Mr.. Sedgwick's address before the Alumni of
Columbia College, New York, delivered on the
27th of October, and just published in pamphlet,
is full OF good matter relating to education and
the formation of character in early life He saws:
'From the time that the boy whose fortune it is
to be educated is immured in school, till the period
when ne is again to be immured in the lawyers of
nee, the counting room, the dissecting ROOM and
from that time again until he enters upon the pro-
iesslon OF his life, systematic attention whatever
is paid to the subject of physical education. All
the health all the exercise that he gets he gets by
nature OF oy chance. No regular opportunity is
provided for 1t, no authoritative encouragement is
given to it, no stimulus, prize; all the ambition
all the zeal, all the ardor of his young ignorant
and unretecting nature is concentrated on the
vigil and the midnight lamp. Severe labor, long
terms, short vacations, crowded rooms late hours
bad alr-what is the natural result?
"W hat can be the result? Well has it been said
that the mind perishes as the body dwindles. Not
,dn dnr the male crowd of sicky dyspeptics whom
life. There have indeed been Pascals and Byrons
and Channings, who, despite frail and miserable
health, have achieved immortal things; but these
are only exceptions which prove great general
rule.
ait is the man of robust and enduring consttu-
ton, OF elastic nerve, of comprehensive digestion,
who does the great work of life. 1t is Scott with
his manly form. 1t is Brougham with his super
human powers of physical endurance. 1t is Frank
lin, at the age of seventy, camping out on his way
to arouse the Canadas, hardest boys of
twenty now camp out in the Aridondacks or on the
Miramichi. 1t is Napoleon, sleeping four hours
and on horseback twenty. 1t is W Washington, with
his splendid frame and physical strength. These
are the men who make the names which the world
will not let die. Miserable is the philosophy and
the practice which fails to recognise the Importance
OF the animal part of our complicated structure.
hat is there in our system to raise or develop
such men? How is it possible for them to be pro-
duced by it? | mean system of education
Among the classes which do not SO much boast of
their intellectual training, the physical man is in
deed infinitely better cared for If you seek among
our people for bodily strength look at the great
turn-outs OF our hremen. Look at our crack volun-
teer regiments exchanging national courtesies with
our sister States Among them you shall, indeed,
find that sturdy vigor, that bodily strength and
preparation of disappointment and modification"
Hon. Henry c. Murphy, United States Minister
to the Hague, writes to DR.. E. B. O'Callaghan, of
Albany:
81 hope to send you, during the Winter, a "Me-
moir of Henry Hudson in Holland" being an expo
sition of the causes and motives of the voyage in
which he discovered Hudson River, derived from
the records of the company and from printed sour
ces, not heretofore regarded. The most interesting
part OF it to you will be the written contract enter
ed into between Hudson and the Directors of the
East India Company of Amsterdam, and contain
ing points of historical interest. My Memoir is
written, and am only waiting search in regard
it. intend to follow this up by some researches in
relation to Usselinx and the organization Of the
West India Company
Walter Harper, of fDetroit, has conveyed in trust
property worth nearly $1,000 to number of citi-