The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-02-17
THE MARCH MAGAZINES.
GOLD AND NEW"

cold and New by the editor; ''Revela-
ton, by Henry James; ''She Writes (chap-
ters and III; 'What Young Man Needs in
College, by President George NJ. Steele; 'In
Search Of a Climate" 'Sonnet, by Paul H.
Hayne, Georgia "Religion in Schools by
A. d. Mayo; paul Tracey, Artist, " by Julia
G. r. Dorr; 1.-The Distant Hills, by r. S. p.
''The Algonlin Manit' or Manitou, by j.
H. Trumbull; "Nature and the Great Rail-
road Iii, with cuts), by William T. Brigham
THEM .Phs March of Empire" RyiJr K. ,TtI,j TGsmerj
''Things New and Old" by Washington
GLADDEN.; 'Englands New Colony" 7La
Musica Trionfante, by L. w. Parsons; "The
School Men and their Bureau, by Sidney
Andrews; Ten Times One is Ten Chapters
iv and W, by Fred. Ingham; sympathy"
''The Examiner" ':Record of Progress"
From the paper entitled 'What Young
Man Needs at College," by Professor Steele,
of Lawrence University, Wisconsin, we quote
as folows:-
First good body is wanted. After all that
has been said there are comparatively few
who realize to its full extent, the depend
ence of the soul for its real effectiveness on
physical health. 1t is not merely that the
body is the instrument of the mind and so
must be in tolerable repair, in order to the
profitable activity of the latter; though this
is great and important consideration, fully
equal to all that has been estimated concern
ing it. But also the body itself somehow has
a greater agency in its effect, both on the
mind and on some of the objects of the
minds action, than it has, in any case, re-
ceived credit for. 1t is only on this supposi-
ton the effect of some of our popular orators
can be accounted for. Even such men as
Whitefeld, and Spurgeon, and Beecher, how
ever much of their efficiency may be owing to
their lofty spirituality and intense earnest
ness, certainly are indebted far less to intel
lectual superiority than to perfection of ply
sical vigor and the happy balance Of the ply
sical powers It may be doubted whether
this muscular energy is not quite as indis-
pensable requisite in the intellectual work
of the world as in its manual employments.
One of the great and hitherto in
vincible fallacies of our civilization,
working immense mischief, is the theory and
practice of selecting the constitutionally
feeble bodied members of the family, or those
who have suffered from disease or accident,
which has diminished the bodily strength, as
fit subjects for liberal education and the
most intellectual employments. Say the
parents and friends, and the community
generally, 'These children will be good for
nothing else-they cannot work-they must
be educated Thus the refuse Of the COM
munity is set apart for the highest and most
important uses. Probably it would not be
sively prevail; but, even so, we should gain
intellectually in the intellectual, and
probably not lose SO very much
in the manual, force of the world.
To say nothing Of the exhausting char
acter of the pressure Of sickly body on a
soul which ought to be supported by the
body instead of furnishing a support for it,
how much mightier is the influence of the
mind when transmitted through a healthy
muscular and nervous system!
Surely, then, instead of its being reason
why a young man should not go to college,
because he is strong and robust of body, that
is the very reason why he should go-it is
the very thing he needs-better than money,
or genius, or almost anything else, except
common sense, and that he is far more likely
TO have if he first have the other
No doubt one reason whya large class of
Young men are deferred from a college course,
is that such course is associated in theil
minds with delicate constitutions and feeble
unenduring bodies. If more of our hearty
rugged boys, full of animal spirits, were IL
our colleges it would become more custom
ary than now to engage in out-of
door sports, and there woult
be less need of reiterated
extortion to good students tt
take exercise. AS it is
college students are divided into two classes
those who devote too much time to thu
cultivation of the mind, and those who Civ
themselves too much to the cultivation of tn
muscles. If it should become the custom fo
the healthiest boys to go to college, the bes
scholars would find enough of natural In
pulse to seek the open air, and at the sam
time sufficient inclination to study, so tina
there would be natural limit fixed to exces
in either direction, while the influence thu
exerted would draw the extremes to health
mean. Thus, and thus only, should we haV
the mems Sdnd TN sane cOFpOre.
In the second place, he needs correc
theory of the scholastic life. 1 10 not mea
an absolutely infallible theory; that, probi
bly he will not get. There is q variety
opinions entertained on this subject by wis
men and it is not likely that the best will b
accepted by all. Yet there are certain prime
piles which are adopted by tho'
best qualified to Judge, and whic
commend themselves to the common sens
of all That student needs some regult
plan is obvious A poor course of study
much better than none. +. W. Robertson
in one of his letters written not many yea
after leaving Oxford, lanenting his desu
tory style of culture, says;-'I now feel th
was utterly, mournfully, irreparably wroni
Now 1 would give GOO year
have read on bad plan chosen for me, bl
steadily
All profitable plans of scholarly cultur
with whatever variable elements, have tn
constant quality, namely that there must
such range and diversity of study as WI
serve to the development, discipline al
information of all the powers of the sou
What we seek, or ought to seek, is Il
greatest possible amount of power CO
sistent with a well-balanced and sy