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...Jaffray '99, right guard, is a graduate of Westminster School, New York, where he played for two years in the line. He is young and somewhat green, but has pluck and is a ready learner. He is strongest on defensive play. Age 18, height 6 ft. 3 in., weight...
...most important of which are the "Great Didactic," the "Gate of Languages" and the "World Illustrated." The object of the first of these was, as expressed in the subtitle, "to teach everybody everything" and "to search out a rule in accordance with which the teachers teach less and the learners learn more." Knowledge, virtue and religious conviction, the three things to be sought after in life, are to be obtained through study. To educate humanity so as to give it an adequate consciousness of itself and to make it useful and happy are the aims which Comenius had always...
...course, because practice on the water is always too limited before the New London race. However, there seems to be a good deal that can be learned and taught to better advantage in the tank than upon the river. The coach has many advantages as has also the learner. This year, the tank is thought to be more useful than ever before. Of course the real value of this work as compared with that of other years can only be estimated correctly when the crew has been put into a boat and worked for a while upon the water...
...opponents to such a proceeding is that it would simply prove a return to "professionals." Likely enough the students would learn their sports from the best teachers, as most people of sense do learn. There are few attainments of body or mind that have not to be taught the learner by persons more proficient than himself, and it places no mark of evil on the teacher that he be dubbed "professional" Englishmen have not suffered from their contact with professionals, without whom no cricket club of any importance in England exists. There is no tennis court without its professional "marker...
...then a student only wastes time by trying to learn a foreign language, and that he may nevertheless attain a fair degree of scholarship in other departments. Some students who make little progress in the dead languages do fairly well with the living. The mind of one learner may be most effectively trained by means of one science, that of another, by another. And it is not asking our college authorities to do an unreasonable thing when we demand that they shall indicate as nearly as may be the sources of the training received by the graduates they send forth...