Word: boys
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...very moderate grade of the Harvard College admission examinations is considered, it seems absurd that the average age of the entering classes should be close to nineteen years; yet such is still the case. Comparison with foreign countries in this respect is mortifying. In England, France, of Germany, boys of sixteen, or at the most seventeen, are as far advanced in their education as are college freshmen here. More than this, what they have learned they are familiar with in a way unknown to the boy who has here squeezed through college examinations which are often the sole...
...present over-development of athletics in the colleges of the country is particularly harmful in its effects upon the preparatory schools. It is not to be expected that young boys should set their ideals higher than those which seem to move their elders; and certainly of all the activities of the college men of today, those directed toward the attainment of the athletic ideal are the most conspicuous. The school boy sees almost no side of college life but the devotion to athletics in one form or another, of which he has constant evidence. The real intellectual work which...
...play, but to furnish the first stimulus to any real mental activity at all. Obviously there is here a serious incongruity between the desirable and the necessary in a college education, and the fault lies with the students themselves. By their devotion to athletics they give to the school boy just the stimulus which he least needs, and which is accordingly the worst for him. His youthful vigor might be trusted to work itself off in as much athletics as would be good for him; while the college should furnish the much more needed impulse to scholarly attainment...
...stage career is the more assured because the interest does not depend upon the rendering of any particular part by a star actor. For Mr. Robson's second week here he will offer an entirely new play, an original comedy by Adrian Barbusse and Sidney Rosenfeld, entitled "Dear Old Boy," with Mr. Robson as "Marmaduc, the Good...
...appearance again on the Boston stage is highly welcome. Dorcas is a very light, amusing, musical comedy. The story dwells upon the escapades of a young woman of title who resorts to strategem to satisfy herself of the character of a lordly lover. She disguises herself as a peddler boy, then as Dorcas, a village beauty and wife of an innkeeper, and finally as the daughter of an English Lord. In all these three characters Miss Hall appears to great advantage. Having the physique and pose which will set off any costume, there is peculiar interest attached to her appearance...