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...there is another view to take of the subject. If America is proud of anything she is proud of her manhood and vigor, of her powers by land and sea, and of her acknowledged lead in all kinds of sports where a cool head and manly vigor win honors; and in no place is this pride more marked than right here in Eastern Massachusetts, in Boston, the "hub" of sports as well as of the universe...
...could not remain the second day, but had sufficient experience at Harrow to urge earnestly the father and mother who read this letter to encourage their boys, by time, money (not much), your own presence and personal interest in such pleasure, and thus behold a splendid development of physical manhood, as the boys grow up to take the paternal place. Good fathers and doting mothers may object to this advice, but the old adage, "all work and no play, makes Jack a dull boy," is a mighty true saying. There is as much need for relaxation as there...
...place of education. The man who comes to Yale University does so as a free agent, but if he once enters, a silent and irresistible influence comes upon his own being independently of its choice. He cannot overcome the power. It works on every part of his manhood. We are members of one family in the largest sense. Even the son who perverts the influence of Yale to his own destruction, is not the same as if he had never come here. He is not only a ruined man, but a ruined son of Yale also...
...After graduation he accepted a position as instructor in Groton Academy, but rapidly failing health soon compelled him to retire. The class whose number is now for the first time since graduation broken, loses one of its most promising members, and his friends a true examplar of firm Christian manhood...
...their Alma Mater. Nothing could exceed the order with which they entered the theatre in a long procession and took their places. It was impossible not to feel that the greater freedom allowed to American undergraduates led them to recognize earlier than do English youths the responsibilities of manhood." We cannot help smiling at the writer's astonishment at our good behaviour, nor yet escape feeling complimented by the praise he bestows upon...