There is noticeably a marked increase in the interest which the men take in their exercise since the appearance of Mr. Lathrop in the gymnasium. The monotony of mere routine work has been much relieved by his attempt, by squared exercise, to arouse enthusiasm in vaulting, tumbling, shot-passing and other diversions. A great many go into the gymnasium, and development book in hand, proceed to follow minutely Dr. Sargent's directions, they do nothing with any life or vigor, and their Faces are as gloomy and full of despair as if they were engraved in "grinding out" a calculus lesson or making up a condition in Freshman Algelba, Careful count is kept of every motion, and when the reacquired number is reached, with frightened countenance the ropes are dropped. Such exercise is useless. Exercise to be benefit had must been treed into with anticipated pleasure and with zest. And this is just the spirit which our new assistant is trying to infuse into what, before have been to many irksome tasks. We never till now, realized Low necessary is an instructor in gymnasium work, and we only wonder how we have got along all this time without one.
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