The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-06-28

menos of Sysippos How much time
 could be spared for these exercises; and just how much aesthetics each athlete would require are delicate questions, l and perhaps can only be decided by long experience. Certainly every ath- lete should at once be furnished with a bust of some one of the three above- mentioned statues and be instructed to spend all his odd and spare minutes in regarding it fixedly until he feels him self pierced and pervaded by its spirit
 Moreover, casts of the whole statues
 should be erected in the gymnasium, on the campus and at the field, so that all college may be moved along in the path
 of beauty towards the exalted goals of
 athletes. There is another point in this
 matter which is of special importance
 to Yale college. Yale college has an
 Art school. Every student may not be
 aware of the fact, but it is nevertheless
 SO. This Art school has been tadpoling
 for the last twenty-five years. It
 doesn't seem to know what it is for,
 where 1t is at or why it is any way,
 Now if a place could be made for this
 moribund concern in the modern pro
 cession of athletics, could it not be
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 take the place originally intended for it
 as a component part of the university?
 There must be one single idea perva-
 ding every institution of learning and
 every department of the institution
 must be in measure subordinate to
 that idea. The idea changes from time
 to time, of course. The present idea is
 athletics; and the various departments
 of the university are ffourishing just in
 proportion to their subordination to
 this idea. By contributing she requi-
 site casts and the requisite instruction
 the Art school will put itself in touch
 with the present movement, and that
 touch will give 1t back life and growth.
 Thanks to the Cornell crew for such pi-
 ous suggestions. Another point that came up on the voyage is. this: Why
 are persons sailing from New York to Europe always sleepy, and always very wide awake when they are sailing back?" This is very simple. People sailing to Europe are sailing to the east; that is towards the rising sun. Every day they are so much nearer the rising sun. The sun therefore rises earlier each morning by the exact dis tance traversed since the preceding morning. This in time varies from half an hour to an hour. As everything on ship-board :s regulated by the sum- breakfast every morning is from half an hour to an hour earlier than it was the day before. The effect of having breakfast three-quarters of an hour earlier every day can be tried by any body at home. It is not necessary to go to sea to make the experiment. Say you breakfast at eight. Order it at a quarter-pas seven. The first morning wouldn't be so very hard, and you would be inclined to think the thing all | nonsense. But keep it up How long | before your sleep economy would be | demoralized? It's dollars to doughnuts you wouldn't continue the | experiment three days. On ship-board l you have got to continue it week | No wonder people are yawning all over the place and wondering what can be | the matter. This letter must terminate most abruptly with thousands of things | unwritter The London train has had | It's breakfast, Is wide awake and won't | wait for anybody. FERNANDEZ.