The main responsibility of a university is to develop a students academic ability. While physical health is an important prerequisite for mental health and academic achievement, sports should play a comparatively small role in college students lives. Since a students main activity outside of the classroom is studying, occupying from four to eight hours of their day, a peaceful studying environment plays an important role in a students academic development. College dorm rooms can have up to eight students sleeping in one small room and are not good environments for students to study in. To provide excellent studying environments for their students, universities must build large libraries designed to accommodate students as well as books. Since sports should occupy a much smaller part of the students time, perhaps only an hour a day, sports facilities need not be as extensive or well-equipped as libraries. In addition to the costs of building adequate library faculties, a university must also pay every year to keep its collection well organized and up-to-date. The goal of every university library should be to have the most current books and materials its students need in order to study and do cutting edge research. The larger the student body, the more comprehensive a librarys collection must be. A well-trained staff must also care for the materials and help the students. Continuing costs for sports, on the other hand, are relatively low, requiring only a few part-time staff and maintenance routines. For the most part, students are happy to organize their own sporting events and exercise routines quite independently of the school. Although a students health is critical to their academic success, the investment that a school needs to make to ensure a physically fit student body is relatively small. Considering that the main mission of the school is to develop a students mind and not their body, the school should put more of its resources into its libraries and not its sports activities.
大学的主要责任是培养学生的学术能力。身体健康是心理健康和学业成绩的重要前提，体育在大学生生活中应该发挥比较小的作用。由于学生在课堂之外的主要活动是学习，从四到八个小时的时间里，一个安静的学习环境对学生的学术发展起着重要的作用。大学宿舍可以有多达八名学生睡在一个小房间，不适合学生学习的环境。为了给学生提供良好的学习环境，大学必须建立大的图书馆，以适应学生和书籍。由于体育运动应该占用学生的时间的一小部分，也许只有一个小时的一天，体育设施不必像图书馆一样广泛或设备齐全。除了建造足够的图书馆才能的费用外，还必须每年支付一所大学，以保持其收藏的良好组织和最新的。每一所大学图书馆的目标应该是拥有最新的书籍和材料，它的学生需要，以学习和做前沿研究。学生的身体越大，图书馆的收藏就越全面。一个训练有素的工作人员也必须照顾的材料和帮助学生。另一方面，体育运动的持续成本是比较低的，只需要几个兼职工作人员和维护程序。在大多数的学校里，学生们很高兴自己能独立地安排自己的运动和锻炼。虽然学生的健康对他们的学业成功至关重要，但学校需要的投资，以确保身体健康，学生的身体是比较小的。考虑到学校的主要任务是培养学生的思想，而不是他们的身体，学校应该把更多的资源投入到图书馆，而不是它的体育活动。