Judge Cheever's Address

Judge Cheever addressed a large audience at Newberry hall, Sunday morning, on "Citizenship. " Among the prime essentials of a good citizen, he considered the first to be good health. The great battles of life are won quite as largely by physical vigor as by intelectual attainments. A strong miad in a weak body is like a steam engine on tin drive wheels. There is too much brain work and too little physical culture in our schools and colleges. The undue amount of work required of students results in tlieir minds being stuffed instead of invigorated, and leads to dishonest means of escaping the burdens. The majority of students will be honest when teachers are jast and reasonable in their demands. There ought to be a committee of the older members of the faculty to fix the limit of lessons and the amount of work required. The evils of tobáceo and cants were dwelt upon at considerable length. Instruction in regard to theirbad effects will not influence the young verymuch as long as their elders continue to set them the bad example they now do. That part of man which has the greatest restraining influence on his acts is his religious nature. He is more likely to be a good citizen if he has a religious belief of some kind even if it is mixed with much error. The development of the conscience and religious nature ought not to be neglected, and it would be well if there were in the (J. of M. a chair devoted exclusively to religious and moral instruction, the course to be required of all candidates for graduation.