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Harvard College appears to have carried athletic training to its farthest extent, but when we consider that the Greeks spent years, nay lives, to win a race or throw a wrestler, we seem, in comparison, to have paid but little attention to the training of our bodies. To the Greeks...
IV. An Account of the Life and Works of Demosthenes.
George Hyde Page, "Invective against Demosthenes." - [Aeschines.
It has never been the object of any college journal at Harvard to instruct ; all from the start have been eager to disavow any such purpose. There are, perhaps, three wholesome influences at Harvard to prevent any growth of pedantry among her students: the universal attention given to athletics, the...
The Bowdoin Orient sings the praises of the stylograph as follows: "Among modern inventions there is none which is more likely to influence poetry and literature, as well as practical life, than the stylograph. Poets have always looked with peculiar veneration on the pens which have enabled them to transcribe...