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...lavished upon it, can be but harmful to any but the strongest work. Mr. Wendell's romance has been called the "most powerful and original that has been produced in America since Hawthorne;" "as a piece of literary workmanship, almost perfect." The reviewers have suffered only from dearth of words in which to express this enthusiasin, and the slight blame which they throw in seems to be rather a propitiatory offering to justice than an honest belief in the existence of faults. The fact is that the book has many faults. As a "piece of literary workmanship...
...different schools, more widely than heretofore, would bring us in a few years the most valuable material for successful crews. This idea could enter into the treatment of every phase of athletics, and tennis and lacrosse would feel its influence as well as the more important sports This dearth of good athletes can only be ascribed to our reprehensible neglect properly to foster our athletic sources. A loyal interest in the welfare of Harvard athletics demands that greater attention should be paid to our preparatory school athletics, and upon that interest depends our prospect of future success...
...large a community as ours there can be no dearth of news, athletic or otherwise, and if the men who frequent the gymnasium would be on the lookout for facts there about our crews and other teams the athletic interest would be well cared for, while the men in the various departments of the university might see to it that all news relating to their work and courses should reach us. Moreover, in a college supporting so many different societies, there ought to be a large amount of society news, but the secretaries are extremely backward in sending us reports...
...their training rather than from any in-born talent. According to the present system of instruction the study of Latin is far more difficult to the Russian mind than the study of Greek; the literary Russian must necessarily have acquaintance with one or more European languages and the dearth in literati among the Russians results rather from a lack of power of expression than any other special reason. The boys of the higher classes enter the gymnasia or military schools when they are from twelve to fifteen years of age where they remain for six years of age where they...
...recent address before the New York Harvard Club, President Eliot remarked that the clerical profession had been "deeply injured by beneficial endowments," and that although this profession had been more generously treated in the way of pecuniary aid than any other, in it is "the greatest dearth of great...