ATHLETIC VS. HAZING.

The Rev. Dr. Smith, of New Haven, stands up for athletics when he says that the men who know how to do things in their business and professions, and who do them in practical confidence are generally men who in early lift learned how to work with their hands. There is certain intellectual gain in acquiring the dexterous or steady com

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mand of any set of muscles. The agility and firmness, for instance, to be gained in boxing is not wholly a physical gain; it has, also, some reactions upon the habits of an intellectual man, which are not to be despised. There are also indirect moral reactions of college athletics which are thoroughly healthful. Physical training and physical excesses do not go together. The disappearance of the worst forms of hazing seems to me to be in part an effect of the increased interest in athletics.