The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1892-04-05
A Physical Education Needed,

A Physical Education Needed.
The collapse In health and even pre-
mature death of many Of our public
men OF late years are warning in
stances Of oyertasked energies, over
worked brains. The late Secretary of
the Treasury Window, who died sud-
denly at banquet in New York, the
almost fatal illness of his successor,
MIR. Foster, the illness OF Secretary OF
State Blaine. the sudden death OF Sem
ator Plumb of Kansas, the illness OF
congressman Mills, Crisp and Springer
are all recent and notable instances of
the collapse of the human body under
an unnatural mental pressure that the
frail body could not stand. Physiology
teaches us that the body Is peculiarly
and wonderfully made, and that 1t is
o piece OF machinery or rather com
bination of machinery that requires
the greatest care in the treatment OF
it. Without a strong, healthy body
the mental faculties will not have
proper room for exercise.
Too much stress is laid In these days
upon the development Of the mental
faculties and not enough upon ply.
steal developments. The one Is as
necessary to education OF youth to
bring all his powers into full play as
the other. A great mind will become
FESTIVE and fretful cooped upin weak
body, and it will not be long before
the mental wears away the physical,
and both are wrecked at about the age
In life when they should be in full en-
joyment of usefulness. One OF the
first considerations, al the outstart OF
useful life. is to pay particular at
tention to the education OF the physi-
cal. Professor Goldey, OF the Will
mington Commercial College, has
como more and more to recognize this
great fact. Preparing, as he is engage
ed in doing, the minds OF young PEG.
pie Immediately for the active duties
OF a CONNIE rcial life, he recognizes
the need of more attention being paid
to the physical culture OF his pupils.
His pupils are OF an age when they
are apt to have high youthful ambi-
tion. Eureka" is their motto, and to
succeed their great aim. In this con-
dltion there is great fear OF tho over
taxing Of the mental faculties far be.
You'd the ability of the physical body.
Youths in their ambition scarcely
think OF this, but rush on, blrning the
midnight oil, to use ilgurative ex-
preston, expanding the mind, climb
Ing step by step the ladder OF learn,
ing, but forgetting that their bodies
are weak and that they arc taxing
their mental energies far beyond the
capacity of their physical bodies.
~ Professor Goldey wisely comes to
the relief Of ambitious youth. He now
not only teaches the great necessity
n>apS physical training in theory but he
made arrangements to carry it out
Practice by union OF his college
h the gymnasium OF the Young
his Christian Association of this
Iy, whereby his pupils can have the
enetit of physical culture in Its full
psf sense in connection with mental
culture. The benefits to Professor
aoldey's pupils by this arrangement
1hre not only great in physical sense
4 but great in moral sense. Youthful
associations have often more to do
with the wreck of the body than over,
study, and he is a wise teacher who
will look after the moral trimming OF
his pupils as we'll as the physical aud
mental.
Moral, mental and physical, what
Importance hangs upon those three
words. Each plays an important part
In the composition Of the successful
man in whatever branch Of bushes.
he starts. The lack Of either woal(
be like an unbalanced ly-wAeel that
would soon wear out tho whok
machinery with which it is connected
We see these moral, mental, physical
wrecks all around us rheyruin thei!
short lives, and soon disappear froil
view like lost star.