Word: develop
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...president of Harvard says that "every youth of eighteen is an infinitetely complex and solitary organization." Next "correct education has for its aim the correct development of each student's gifts." I do not grant the first statement, and the second is not true. Do you, in physical education, take for your aim to strengthen the parts that are weak, or do you seek to develop more the parts already strong? Is the public ready for a steatopygean education. They like it in Africa. Is a man complete if he be a superior mathematician and that be the limit...
...years past Harvard university has been trying, first, to stimulate the preparatory schools to give attention to English, and secondly, to develop and improve its own instruction in that department; but its success thus far has been very moderate...
...abolishing the class days. Of course, in the past, there have been some reasonable grounds for objection. The principal one is, that they tend to increase the expenditures, which necessarily are becoming greater from year to year. We do not think, however, that anything which tends to develop a spirit of unity and class enthusiasm should be put down...
...carriage of the body and the arms, very few directions suffice; but it often takes months to develop the muscles necessary for a proper execution of the directions. The body should swing forward and back with a hip, and not a back movement. Eight years ago Harvard crews used to row with a bent back. In considering the advisability of a change during the captaincy of our late coach, it was argued that a straight back, and an active chest allowed free and easier breathing, an important consideration in a race of from twenty to twenty-five minutes. Further...
...CRIMSON:- It is a significant fact that ever since the institution of the Annex, the tendency of our learned Professors has been toward the "more tender" sports, notably tennis (which two play, with rests and things). At the same time their policy has been to discourage those games which develop and exercise the manly powers, strength, endurance, pluck and skill. The natural inference is, that the influence of these maidens upon the faculty is demoralizing, effeminating and mollifying (I use the word in its first meaning) in the extreme. Therefore Messrs. Editors, despite a chivalric regard for the gentler...