Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Second Annual Report of the Board of Trustees of La Fayette College, Vol. 2: Read at the Public Exhibition, October 7th, 1833
Besides the actual loss of money to the community, incurred by the premature death of its educated men, is an immense tax. Each young. Man who dies at the threshold of professional life, must have expend ed something like $2,000'on his education. The statistics are not col looted, but the number in the United States probably exceeds one hun dred per year. That is, we throw away, besides the life which cannot be valued, a year in educating men for the grave. Now the system we advocate largely forestalls this evil. Another year's expo rience confirms our confidence in the sovereign efficacy of this pro phylactic remedy. Regular, daily, systematic exercise secures health. Of body, and by necessity health of mind. Sedentary disease is un known in our institution; unless indeed it be imported, and even then itis neither infectious nor contagious.
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