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Myers' retirement (if such is the case) will leave a huge gap in American athletics that will be a long time healing up, while such men as Baker and Goodwin are objects of pride and admiration to their countrymen, still the fact that they confine their powers almost entirely to college games and seldom enter open amateur competitions, detracts considerably from their importance as representatives of athletics in this country. * * * What a splendid list of high jumpers we have now. Page, little, wiry, cat-like Page, hit the record such a crack this year as to send...
...government of the institution consists of a Prytanis (president), an Ephor or Dean, and a Syncletus or Senate, composed of five professors from each school. Each school is governed by its faculty, and annually elects five of its number to represent it in the senate. The professors are almost all Greeks, who have been sent to Germany, France and England for their advanced education. The departments of Philology and Law are particularly rich in able and learned instructors...
...glass, the flint, was successfully cast, and this did not reach Mr. Clark until about three years ago. A very much longer delay accompanied the casting of the crown glass, which was received last October. The original castings were an inch or more greater radius than after grinding, and almost innumerable difficulties had to be overcome in order to get a perfectly clear and homogeneous piece of glass of such size...
...founding of the Boston Latin School. Dr. Brooks traces with great care the close relations which have always existed between the Latin School and its younger sister, Harvard University. No school, perhaps, has been so closely connected with Harvard as the Latin School. Its masters have been almost an unbroken series of Harvard graduates, and in return the school has continued, we might almost say for centuries, to supply the university with an annual contingent of scholars including nearly its entire graduating class. Almost one hundred Latin school graduates are now studying at Harvard. The "Harvard spirit" rules...
After discussing the subject in its political, social, and moral and religious aspects, the same writer continues: 'It may be said, 'Why criticise the workings of one and the same principle in these different departments, without suggesting a remedy?' It would be almost impossible to name a remedy that should have any immediate effect in the cases mentioned. It must be a long time before renewed vitality creeps into the nerves and muscles of a patient who is 'run down.' But there is one department where a change of present policy might have much direct effect upon the life...