On the Occasion of a Memorial Meeting for
Students of Hunan First Normal School Who Died
of Illness 85 (1917)
Wherefore did seven of our fellow students die? Merely for lack of a ten-minute
exercise break!
85 During the course of this one year (1917), seven students at Hunan First Normal School died
of various illnesses. This aroused the indignation of certain students and teachers against the school
authorities who, they felt, callously ignored the students’ need for physical exercise to the extent of
denying them even a ten-minute exercise break between classes.