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...pitchers," they were told. "But to say the truth," one of them replied, "the bowling - or what you call 'pitching' - seemed weak too. Every ball was full pitched, and any one can hit a full-pitched ball; yet your fellows often missed them." A smile passed round among the base-ball players and their friends. "Any one can hit a full-pitched ball, can he? What do you say to that, Fothergill? Can any one hit one of your curves?" Fothergill rather thought not; and considering that an income about ten times as large as an English curate...
...Among those present at the reception were the following...
...Fifteen years ago Prof. Hill came to Harvard. From that time he has been working to carry out his plan of more thorough instruction in English. Meeting opposition on every side, in the preparatory schools, as well as among the students and in the faculty, he kept on. In spite of apathy or difference of opinion among his associates he still worked for his department. Everywhere he went he met the statement, 'I write well enough, and I was never taught English.' This hostility, or at best indifference, had to be overcome. Finally he drew to himself the young...
...would be foreign to our present purpose. The remarkable results of its adoption at Harvard can, however, be illustrated by a single group of facts. The measurements of each student are compiled into a resulting "total strength," which in the case of the man showing the best development among the students of 1880, was indicated by 675.2. This man was F. D. Jordan. The average total strength of the ten best men in that year was 665.2. In 1881, C. H. W. Foster, the highest on the list, gave a total strength of 801.9, the average for the first...
Since 1884 complete tables have not been compiled, but enough is known to show that while the total strength of the best developed student is not higher than the remarkable figure of 1884, there are among the students now in college no less than 200 whose total strength is higher than the best man in 1880, while the average in the whole university shows a great advance in development over that of 1880. This fact illustrates better than anything else that can be said the thoroughly satisfactory practical results of the system of adjusting exercise to individual needs. - Cambridge Tribune...