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Title: SHC 1830-1905
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Spring Hill College
Subjects: SHC Publications
Publisher: Spring Hill College: A private Catholic College of Liberal Arts
Contributing Library: Spring Hill College, John & Marnie Burke Memorial Library
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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y training, the athletic campus is an admirableschool of discipline for after life. Here are brought into action and cultivated thetwo prime requisites for success in any career, self-confidence and self-control.These constitute the offensive and defensive qualities necessary for securing vic-tory on the worlds broad battle-ground. One is the sword to strike; the other,the shield to parry. One is the spur to urge on, the other the rein to hold in thefiery steed of ambition. The former won the day at Trenton, the latter was tri-umphant at Valley Forge; the former made Washington the illustrious conquerorand hero, the latter transformed him into the honest patriot and statesman. Self-confidence and self-control! In very truth what more fitting field for thecultivation and exercise of these two manly virtues than the College Campus andGymnasium? Here it is that youth learns to assume the aggressive, to stampdown obstacles, to be alert, courageous, far-seeing, untlinching in his plans and
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SPRING HILL COLLEGE. 41 projects; here he is taught to bear and forbear, to curb his eagerness for attack,to bide his time in patience, to let judgment take precedence of impulse. Here,also, numberless opportunities of strengthening and controlling character presentthemselves, thereby affording the young the grandest preparation for properly en-tering upon the arena of manhood. Hence, we are not surprised that the heads of colleges and universities inthis country and Europe, fully alive to the immense benefits accruing to the mindand body from a judicious and well conducted system of athletic exercises, havegiven their serious attention to this branch of culture and have spared no pains toplace it on proper footing in their educational courses. They are convinced withthe ancient Greek and Roman masters that a mens sana can better exist andperform its functions in a corpore sano and, in consequence, have made bodilydevelopment go hand in hand with mental cultivation. The gymnasium hasb

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