The Cairo bulletin., 1904-06-04

/ Ierent teacher for each study. ana
each lesson given is of such length
as TO require three or four hours
OF hard work to prepare it thoroughly
ana Understandings, and he is sun.
posed to carry five or six studies.
NOW, Just think what hard time that
student viii have. Long before the
four years high school course is end.
ed many such students have become
discouraged, failed to make passing
grades. dropped out and gone nobody
knows where, or have taken what
they call n job at four or FIVE dollars
per week.
Let one picture TO you something
better. Take the child when he enters
school and make him comfortable
ilrst Then teach and develop him
gradually by precept and example
along mental, moral and physical
lines. through the grades and he will
come out thinking pure minded
wei developed student ready for high
school work. And when he enters
make him comfortable again by Civ.
ing him pleasant rooms, a pure moral
atmosphere, and plenty of practical
and sensible mental and physical
work Put him through a rigid course
IN mathematics and be sure not to ne.
glect the same rigid course in phvsi.
cal culturue. Isn't his body lust as
important 10 him and to the commu.
nifty as his knowledge of mathe.
MATES? What good Is mathematical
knowledge If you haven't body that
Will enable you to put ii to practical
use? You can't get any pleasure out
OF such knowledge or reap any bene.
nj from it without a strong healthy
body. 1t is not only thus in mathe- |
mates, bur in all things. The win. |
ners OF honors in scholarships are
nearly always those who attend the |
gymnasiums as faithfully as they do |
the class rooms. Statistics show that |
a man is in his prime phyically from
the age OF twenty to twenty eight. Bv |
the time he gets through college at
tWentythree or twenty-four he Will |
nave to start in on his profession and
have no time to devote then to the
up of his own physique, be.
sides being too old to derive the best
benefits from a course in physical
Make list of the greatest men the
world has produced and yon'll find
hem all or nearly all as strong ply
'ically as they were mentally We
ook back to Greek art and civiliza.
ion as the Golden Age" This age
vas at its highest point when athletic
'xercse was most generally practised
md admired. Our conception OF
courage, chiyalry, and patriotism
larry with them the ilea of physical
strength It Is fact, and well known,
90, that what we SOW in youth we
viii reap In old age. Then il we want
he children Of our age to be great
mi make regulations that will be ,
anded down to generations as ex
mples OF what was noble and yirtu. I,
us we should train them from child. !
ooi to be snch Il
The Bible teaches that the body l.,
ne temple Of the soul, and Christ said !
hat one soul was worth more than /
world like this. Now, if you hal :
jewel valued at more than this ;
hole world would you not be very I
artlcular about the case in which a
on stored it? Most certainly you 9
ould he Well,such is the case with 4
all aud ! not only consider II pro. '
table bur necessary that we give the i
lme attention and training to per =
citing the body that we do to cult n
lting the mind. a
JOHN DUNNIVANT. h