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ledge should be doubly as vast as now, and although the 

 courses of study in university and college should display 

 it all, still the man who would attempt it all but leave out 

 the care of his bodily health, would be worse than the 

 man who omits charity worse than nothing. No 

 scholar can hope in this day to help and bless his fellow 

 men if he must be forever attending to his eyes or his 

 stomach, or his ears, or some other piece of his machinery 

 gone wrong. Ingersoll used to say that had he been 

 making this world, he had made good health, and not 

 disease, catching. Ingersoll was not very observing. 

 Good health is catching. Your competent physician, 

 surgeon, minister, lawyer, is the man of health who car- 

 ries with him in his own redounding energy and vigor 

 the help that others need. He is radiant, and men are 

 blessed who meet him. And you, young people, will go 

 out from this college educated just in so far as your own 

 good health enables you to enjoy your own life and to 

 bring to men about you cheer, and patience, and power. 

 Not many days since Bryn Mawr College awarded a 

 prize to the member of the senior class who during her 

 four-year course had shown in the highest degree "joy- 

 ousness, courage, fortitude, and faithfulness." That 

 prize is well founded. To show the qualities named in- 

 dicates perennial good health, and the exhibition of such 

 qualities is a mark of high educational attainment; for 

 they are cultivable virtues all. 



Closely associated with bodily health is mental health 

 and I suspect that one exists not without the other. 

 There is no use disputing the matter; the dyspeptic, the 

 epileptic, the nervous man can not for long bless or 



