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[quote=Anonymous]There is an ancient Latin phrase that roughly translates 'Sound Mind in a Sound Body'. Meaning, physical rigor is part of mental rigor.

Historically, most high end schools were boys only.  It seems the way these schools dealt with the teen years was to make the kids do sports.  I guess wearing these guys out was a way to deter their instincts for making trouble.

At some public schools, the sports program is the way to keep the kids coming to school.  At some of the lower tier 'colleges', i.e. Menlo College where my sibling taught, you still have guys coming to class dreaming of football. In all honesty, they're not going to get recruited for the NFL but it is their only mental landscape.  And so schools like Menlo feel they MUST have these sports programs to keep the students enrolled.  In this latter case, sports is used as a carrot to keep tuition dollars coming.

Some colleges promote sports to keep the alumni money flowing because the alumni attend the games.  These schools tend to be the southern schools.  
The northern schools actually seem proud that they have losing sports teams, i.e. Columbia football, because those schools have never needed to rely on sports for the alumni financial commitment to continue flowing.

Lastly, sports does force one to structure their time in school.  If you know you have practice at a particular time or a game, you make sure you get your homework done by a certain time, get enough rest, eat propertly, take it easy at the party, etc...[/quote]

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