Word: fourteen
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Yale won their second game from Brown at Providence on Saturday before a large crowd. Carter and White were the pitchers and the former was batted for fourteen hits while Yale made only five. Carter was steady at critical points, however, and kept the hits well scattered. The fielding of Brown was unsteady and their team work was poor...
...today on the 'varsity field. The showing of the nine was much better than their playing of yesterday against the New Yorks. Gunster being still unable to play, Ward played third base and put up a brilliant game. Hetzrot and Bradley pitched in good form, nine of the visitors' fourteen runs being secured off Jaynes's delivery. Otto was not a success at short, and will be found hereafter at first base. Lowe of the Bostons led the batting, placing the ball in the outfield each time he came to the bat and securing three clean hits. Bradley did good...
...fourteen or less, a boy's place is at home. The influences which surround him should be home influences. The formation of his character can not safely be trusted to any one less interested in him or less intimate with him than his parents; least of all can it be left to his own real childishness under the excitement of a new life. And in this character the time has not come for the development of a vigorous independence; disregard of authority follows it too closely in young people. What the boy wants, and what he can best...
Today the entire education of many boys between the ages of fourteen and eighteen is devoted not to the acquirement of lasting and valuable knowledge such as is the necessary foundation for any great intellectual achievement, but to the superficial mastery of subjects so as to be able to stand test questions, the nature of which is known beforehand. Not real learning, but the passing of a college examination, is the goal of study. So true is this, that often familiarity with previous examination papers is the chief strength of a candidate's preparation, while of working familiarity with...
...contrast which our students thus present to those of foreign countries, is due to no improper forcing of the latter. The cause is to be found in the weakness and inadequacy of our methods of education for the young. The effect of this weakness is to bring boys of fourteen or fifteen to the preparatory schools with very little actual knowledge, and with no systematic training at all. In the process of hurrying such backward scholars into college, it is no wonder, and but small blame to the instructors, that the immediate preparatory training is itself insufficient and unsatisfactory...