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 Chapter Thirteen 
THE HEALTH OF THE INDIVIDUAL 
STUDENT 
THROUGHOUT this report we have spoken of the purpose of the lower college
as that of establishing young men in a special mode of behavior. We have
wished to get them so habituated, so disposed toward the use of books that
it would become for them the natural and customary form of their thinking.
Our chosen and recommended way of life is that of intelligence by reading,
by acquaintance with the best human minds as they are recorded in literature.
But there is one fundamental fear by which any such program must be beset.
It is the fear that, for the individual student, the mode of life which we
recommend is not healthful, that it is exceedingly costly in terms of physiological
and emotional and volitional well-being. If one might personify Nature, as
we sometimes do, the question may be expressed in the words, "Does Nature
intend that a young man 
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