Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1909-09-08

of the tuck shop for the fortnight.
and does not sit up late reading nov
els in his study.
It is not denied that in all subjects. |
after long contest, the muscles are
somewhat depleted, at some days |
comparative light work is necessary
In order to restore the frame to full.
est vigor A racehorse may retain
form when brought out OF the three
or four T. Y. C. spins in one week.
whereas hunter f. not supposed to
be called upon more than three days
fortnight at maximum, and needs
longer rest after doing his best in a
run Of the season, with perhaps .ong
miles home after the kill. College
Fights can race six consecutive
nights over the Shorter university
courses, but NO trainer of a uniyer-
sity boat club crew will. as a rule,
give his men less than four days. for
more) light work between the last
full course trial, and the day of bat
tie, though in 1888 Oxford successfully
defed precedent by rowing four-ffths
Of a course at high pressure only
forty-eight 1ours before the match
But while admitting hat loss OF
muscle is greater from a long than a
short contest, and that it conse-
quently entails longer rest before the
subject comes back to best form, it
may also be laid down as a tenet OF
experienced athletes that the sensa-
tien of being played out for the r.o-
ment at the end of a long and losin :
struggle is one which is on the VINO lie
much less distressing than that
which is experienced at the end OF
some high-pressure run ranging from
sixty seconds to two minutes The
performer in the last-named may re-
turn to form in third (or lessl OF
the time which the long-distance
champion needs; but if either OF the
two is likely to strain himself, it is
the sprinter rather than the slayer.
That so many good sprinters survive
to this day long enough to see third
generations of their own race is sta
tistically reassuring as to any appre
tensions for the future constitutions
of sprinters, and all we now urge is
that the argument is a fortiori when
applied to the stayers.
In conclusion, it may be said that
if our schoolboys could be kept in
cotton wool, and exercised only for
regulation hours like Norwood
Scrubs convicts, it is possible that
their constitutions might escape. there
by the present minimum risks which
they incur by INDUCING in manly
games; but it is common cottage
wisdom that one of the chief func-
tions of public school life-as against
home coaching under private tutor
is the friction of mind with mind in a
juvenile republic, and that participa-
ton in sport and pastime is of itself
an invaluable adjunct towards forma.
ton of future character. That par
ticipation tends to fall fat and to lose
zest if not accompanied by emulation,
and emulation OF itself begets compe-
tition, which ELECTS and tests some of
the best qualities for future mani.
ness. It has been preached of old,
and we may now repeat the sermon,
that lessons of selfrestraint, pluck,
and amiable and honorable emulation
in the long run repay the constitu-
ton in later life, letter than coddling
to be followed by Iatter-day tender
foot emancipation, with no ground
work of lessons OF self-restraint
learned from sport and the tempta
tons of the world and the flesh,
wherein passions and predictions OF
manhood are In such weaklfngs al
lied with spuriously surviving mex
perience OF boyhood.