Fifth Annual Report Of The Board Of Trustees Of The Illinois Industrial University For 1871 2 With Minutes Of Meeting Of Executive Committee Lectures Etc PDF Download

Excerpt from Fifth Annual Report of the Board of Trustees of the Illinois Industrial University, for 1871-2: With Minutes of Meeting of Executive Committee, Lectures, Etc Few persons are aware how great a promoter of study physical labor is, if 0not carried to excess, among those of fair intelligence and good habits. The brain needs rest, and it gets it most effectually in muscular toil, and it returns to study with a keen appetite. If the brain-workers of every city could have one day of every week for physical labor, on a farm or in a shop, they would retain their health much longer, and possess more intellectual vigor than they do where every day is given to intellectual effort. This habit of work should be formed early in life, if we would have it a source of pleasure. Work is the greatest educator and blessing that we have, or are likely to have. Professor tyndall. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.