Word: development
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...only a special course of instruction shall be provided for those who intend to become teachers, but also that a part of every man's college course shall consist of studies that will enable him to form a few general ideas at least of the proper way to develop a human mind...
...number of entries for the chess tournament is at present very small, only five men having signed the book. Last year and the year before very successful tournaments were held and a precedent was set for an annual tournament. As one of the objects of the tournament is to develop latent talent, all who play the game are invited to enter without fear of being beaten. The tournament is open to all members of the university. The book will be left at Bartlett's until Friday night. Rules for play will be announced later...
...students rather than for the world, it seems but fair that the students should reap the benefits of the games. This certainly they can never do unless it is understood that the privileges of athletic contests are granted to them first of all. If athletic games should develop into exhibitions for the eye of the world alone it would be better that they had been abolished, having passed the stage of their full usefulness...
...glad to participate in a sport which requires neither skill nor a great amount of muscle. In previous years the large number of entries have proved the popularity of the sport, and the slowness of the managers in renewing it this year, if for no other reason than to develop material for the Mott Haven team, is extremely deplorable, It is not posible that the Athletic Association can be so overburdened with its duties at this time of year that it cannot spare the time to arrange for a couple of runs a week, therefore, why not begin then...
This task which has been offered to the American school will doubtless require the labor of many years. This is not to be regretted, since these years will develop a new generation of American scholars, and will be no less rich in popular enlightenment, here in America in regard to the art and literature, the religion and the politics of the wonderful race to which we so largely owe our own civilization...