THE MANLY ART.

These rather dull winter days, before the hockey season for all is well under way, offer an excellent opportunity to interest the sedentary student in boxing. Although once flourishing, this exercise has long languished as a competitive sport. Yet there are professional coaches in the Gymnasium ready to give instruction in it. Why cannot a competitive series of matches be instituted, to seduce the inert undergraduate from his hibernation, and to add zest to the aimless work of the lonely exerciser in the Gymnasium? Medals given to winners of the various classifications would add inducement; limited rounds and heavy gloves would remove danger of injuries.

There is no need to urge the value of boxing as exercise; nor should any man look askance at the sport from its association with the professional ring. Ex-President Roosevelt found it his most valuable exercise in college. Both his physique and his vocabulary were invigorated.