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...advantages of theoretical training are incalcuable. Experience with practical situations has shown the need of the study of statistical science as a theory, giving one thereby the ability to use the facts which he has discovered. However the word theory misleads the public. It would be better to banish its use in connection this science. The statistician should have the power to foresee the analysis which facts stimulate. He should comprehend the complete report before he makes up the details. The best way in way in which this object can be obtained is through scientific study and training. The teaching...
...said that the excitement attendant on these sports distracts from study. it is true that the contests do furnish excitement for the students, but it is excitement of a healthy kind. Athletic sports do not divert so many from study as the theatre and billiards. Banish athletics, and you increase the attendance at the theatres and the saloons, where the temptations are greater, and the excitements less healthy than those of the ball-field and boatrace...
...committee of the French Chamber of Deputies have voted to banish the princes...
...being very seriously discussed. If but this last great consummation be reached, towards what higher point can our athletics strive? Musical, foot-ball and literary sculling! What will follow, if, as the Crimson suggests, the Christian Brethren and St. Paul's could be induced to match muscle! But banish such flippant counsel...
...banish from me ev'ry thought of care...