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Its influence has been of the very best. Much time has been spent there in healthful recreation and exercising, which would otherwise have been spent in loafing or something much worse. Larger numbers each year have taken advantage of the opportunities offered and a constantly increasing degree of health and...
Before the war-a phrase which dates most important events in Southern history-this was pre-eminently the college of the South, writes a correspondent of the New York Tribune from the University of Virginia. It had few rivals, and its broad methods of study and liberal discipline drew the...
Now both these passages, as thus (probably not quite correctly) reported convey decidedly erroneous ideas, of which the interest of your readers require the correction. It is quite true that both several of the more celebrated "public schools" of England, e. g., Winchesher, Eton, Winchester, Merchant Taylors' (London), Westminster, and...
But there is another circumstance which tends to mitigate the "evil efects" of this system of scholarships - the way in which they are awarded. A man, in order to receive the benefit of such aid, must distinguish himself in his studies, and this can he done only in two ways...
The commemorative discourse by the Rev. Wm. Orne White followed. He spoke of Dr. Walker's birth in Burlington, Mass., of his boyhood and of his brave struggles to obtain an education, embarrassed as he was by poverty and extraordinary discouragements; of his joy at finally gaining admission to Harvard...