Emotional Stress

In all these colleges it has been recognized that whereas physical ill-health among students is no greater than among any other comparable section of the community there is a greater incidence of emotional stress. It is generally agreed too. that this threat to the mental health of students can be dissipated by ensuring a better balance in the interests and the demands that face them in their life at college.

Recreation is not the complete answer, but rest assured that your stay at Victoria will be much more valuable to yourself and to your future occupation if your physical education has kept pace with your mental development.

Some of the factors which have contributed to the anxiety states noted among university students are lack of adequate recreation, insufficient social contact among students, overloaded syllabus, frustration and absence of tangible rewards.