How diferent are the circum' bees: "of University students at Home and students in India is disjelosed by the statement on the!
report of the Calcutta University Welfare Committee that there was a deplorable state of malnutrition jand general health amongst the student community. This does. not necessarily mean that the students concerned are poverty stricken but that they do not know the science jof good feeding. Moreover, until recent years the Bengali students hardly took any. part in manly sports and a good many of them to-day are still inclined to be effemmate and neglect the proper exjereise which alone can give them }good health. Happily a great improvement is slowly being brought Jabout and largely by the Welfare Committee which has turned its attention to evolving a satisfactory' [scheme of physical development. and model dietary for students. How urgent is the need for effective Jwork in this dir may be gauged from the report of the Committee. "The results obtained by the health examination during the last six years show that the out Jof every three students have got some defect or other. This jeentuates the necessity of expand-jing our work immediately. The students develop certain defects before they come to college. It jis therefore necessary that the! health of the student should be Nooked into at an earlier stage, 50] that remedial measures may "be more effective. The operation the scheme should therefore be extended to the schools.
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