haunts and species of fish, their habits and seasons, 

 who believes and practices in their propagation and 

 growth and who does not endeavor to capture them all 

 at one sitting. The fisherman thus inclined must find 

 contentment in the music of the water, joy in the 

 warbling of the birds, beauty in the coloring of the 

 leaves, grandeur in the rocks, rest in roaming through 

 the woods, refreshment in the trickling spring, delight 

 in all about him. Trials, tribulations and burdens 

 incident to the hours of daily labor must be forgotten. 

 His mind must be in the abstract, the air that he 

 breather pure, the food consumed be plain and his bed 

 rugged and one whereon he must early to rest and 

 early to rise. While the average fisherman may not 

 embrace all these qualities or enjoy all these gratifying 

 experiences, the majority of them do, and if so, there 

 follows some good in them. My son, the tendency of 

 the age is to excess in everything, but the chances 

 for it in this direction are fewer than in any other. 

 Athletic exercise should not be depreciated, but to 

 believe that padded pants, a wind bag and broken 

 collar bones are essential as part and parcel of a college 

 education cannot be argued to a correct solution. The 

 old astronomer teaching geometry once said, when the 

 pupil was in fault, "You may put such ideas in 

 a basket and they will all leak through." Golf is 

 commendable sport, but when contest for supremacy 

 involves great expenditures of time, money and wager, 

 it must in a measure detract from the simplicity which 

 involves all the real values in outjdoor recreation. I 

 do not wish to be misunderstood. The game itself 

 is clean elevating and helpful, builds the physical 

 man, and, as a general proposition, the participants 

 are loth to indulge to that extent which demoralizes, 



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