...lecturer briskly demanding 'What did I say were the physical functions ?'" But they do not take exercise : "During our ten days' stay, we saw no sign whatever...windows. The utmost physical recreation seemed to consist iua country walk, and I doubt if even this was common, though a large number of students had just returned...

...while greatly praising the earnest zeal of the American undergraduate in his studies, had this to say: The utmost physical recreation seemed to consist in...country walk, and I doubt if even this was common. This absence of desire for physical sports seems more or less common throughout America, and is very...

...the Civil War, an English writer had this to say in his description of American undergraduate life: The utmost physical recreation seemed to consist in...country• walk, and I doubt if even this was common. This absence of desire for physical sports seems more or less common throughout America, and it is...