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...skating rinks on Soldiers Field are now practically finished, and can be made ready for use at a day's notice. The rinks this year are placed parallel to the park-way, and are both 180 feet long by 80 feet wide, with rounded corners. A pipe will be brought over from the locker-building, to supply the city water which will be used entirely for flooding the rinks. The fence around the hockey rink will be about two feet above the ice, since it was found that last year's fence was too high. There will be no fence...
...failed to perform. The academies demonstrated, at the same time, the possibility of a secondary education adapted to the special needs and briefer educational careers of non-collegiate pupils of both sexes. Thus the enthusiastic support of our public high schools as we know them today was ultimately brought about during the years from 1826 to the present time. Although this country, through the state of Massachusetts, was very early committed to the maintenance of secondary schools supported partly or wholly by taxes, it took nearly two hundred years before the new conception of the scope and meaning of public...
...Sargent exhibited before the Boston Physical Education Society, last night in the Gymnasium a new invention called an 'inomotor' for a better development of the body than can be brought about by the old forms of apparatus. This new invention which is a good deal like a sliding rowing seat in appearance, is intended to impel boats, carriages and bicycles by means of arm and leg power. The operator sits on a sliding seat, puts his feet in a sliding boot rest, and grasps a lever in each hand. With a simultaneous use of both legs and body...
President Eliot in 1896 was probably the first to suggest the plan of having uniform examinations. The subject has been brought up several times since then, but nothing was done about it until December, 1899, when the Association of Colleges of the Middle States elected a committee to draw up regulations, and to ask the co-operation of all colleges in that district. The regulations have been in print for some months, but the attitude of the colleges towards the plan was not published until last Friday...
...public lectures will be given this year under the auspices of the club. The first of these will be given by Professor Louis Dyer of Oxford University, on Dec. 21. This lecture, which will be on "Crete," promises to be very instructive and entertaining owing to the remarkable discoveries brought to light by recent excavations in that island...