The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1874-12-04
Wasting Vitality.

''Can you tit my boy for college in two
years. said father several years ago 10
the teacher of preparatory school.
Yes" was the reply, but he will have
to study very hard" IAN right" said
the father. put him through" The boy
was according v put through passed "A
good examination at \ ale. and was admit
ted to the Freshman Class, but during the
second term was Frustrated by an attack
which nearly terminated his life, and de-
layed the day of his graduation for two
years beyond the proposed limit OF his col
leglate course.
In one of the lunatic asylums of our
country. a hopeless maniac, il gentle
man, who ten years since was one OF the
most promising teachers, preachers, and
writers in the country. Overwork
brought him where he is now. but not
overwork in middle life. lie was gradu-
ated with honor ut 81. and began to teach.
winning golden opinions both for his per
sonal worth and his brilliant talents.
"Don't study SO hard" said he one day to
an ambitious. impecunious student,
''you'll injure yourself" and he went on
to relate how hard he studied In college.
how he went 10 sleep with his book under
his pillow, studying as long as he could
keep his eyes open at night, and
at il again when he first woke up.
One morning when he opened his eyes
he founda dozen students standing around
his bed watching him. but without
regarding them he seized his book and
looked in vain for the lesson he had nearly
learned the night before. All trace of IL
had vanished from his mind. and for ~
hours, as he learned afterwards, he had
been unconscious. Ii was weeks and
that attack. but he was graduated as he
supposed In perfect health. Excessive
labor and neglect OF the laws of physical
life brought on similar attack 20 year,
later, from which rest and travel restored
him. Again he plunged into study and
labor and became in the very MONDAY OF
his manhood hopelessly deranged.
The objects of an education are not only
to store the mind with knowledge. to de-
velop the apprehensive and reasoning
faculties. TO cultivate taste but 10 prepare
the student Ia enter upon life with the
full, harmonious development of the
moral, intellectual and physical powers.
that he may be able TO meet in body no
less than in mind the various demands
made upon him. The nineteenth century
needs giants In body no less than giants
in.mind. and the student who fancies that
by mere mental acquisition and develop
ment he can take his place in the forefront
of great men will find some FELLOWSHIP
dent, inferior to him In scholarship but
superior to him In physical yigor, out
stripping him i'm the race.
A great many of our collegiate and aca-
demic institutions are fully alive TO the i'm
portance Of bodily development: and in
gymnasiums. ten-pin alleys, regattas and
ball clubs have made full allowance fnr nj
demands In this direction. But Their,
is yet large number Of parents and
teachers whose chief aim l. to. forc
the human plants under their cart
into premature Towering. "Iow man,
studies have your" asked friend Of
young miss Of fifteen. She counted upon
her fingers and then replied, Twelve al
school. and | take music lessons twice y
week aud practice two hours every day
Neither the teacher, nor the mother OF
that young lady, considers herself an i'm