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...CLASSICAL CONFERENCE. "Discovery of the Shrine of Furrina, where C. Grachus died." Professor Morgan. "Greek Sculpture as a Product of 'Survivals in Culture.'" Mr. J. S. Martin. "A Mysterious Subscription in an Eton Manuscript. Professor Rand. Sever...
...CLASSICAL CONFERENCE. "Discovery of the Shrine of Furrina, where C. Gracchus died." Professor Morgan. "Greek Sculpture as a Product of Survivals in Culture." Mr. J. S. Martin. "A Mysterious Subscription in an Eton Manuscript. Professor Rand. Sever...
...thumbs. No man trusts to his eyes and ears and lungs for exercise. Every man plays something. If he can't get a chance to play once game he plays another. He has been brought up in schools where play is a part of the education. Every boy at Eton, Harrow, Rugby, Winchester and Westminster is compelled to play something. If he is as small as young Nehemiah and has not push enough and enterprise to set him self at work there are tutors whose business it is to teach him some game and see that he plays...
...Corbin describes vividly and from the American point of view, life at Winchester, Eton, Rugby, and some of the other great schools. He indicates the points of difference between the English public schools and the American preparatory schools, and points out clearly those characteristics of the English public schools that have impressed their individuality upon the leaders in English literary and public life. "School-boy Life in England" is handsomely illustrated. This is the second book that Mr. Corbin has published since his graduation...
...Henley. So does the Leander Club which is formed almost entirely of Oxford and Cambridge men. Amongst other competitors may be mentioned the London Rowing Club, the Thames Rowing Club, the Kingston Rowing club, the Moulsey Boat Club, the Royal Chester Rowing Club, and the school boy clubs of Eton and Radley. The course is one mile and 550 yards in length and the water is non-tidal. The level of the water is, therefore, during the regatta unvarying and the direction of the stream is always the same...