Word: manned
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...long before, quite a number of men - say sixteen - are put into half training and tubbed for some weeks before the 'Varsity go to Putney, and the next best four are kept in training at Cambridge for a week after their departure to supply the place of any man who may "crack...
...large, so valuable, or so comprehensive a collection of books as a rich and well-managed library. The great benefit of any library is that it has books on all subjects, and we can find something in it on the transit of Venus or the restored digamma. As a man reads he soon becomes interested in some particular branch, and desires to learn (pleasing hypothesis!) all he can about it; for this purpose he wants to buy books relating to it for his own private library, and finds a public library of great value when desiring to consult books...
...reading man wants to have his library well stocked on his "hobby," but yet not entirely deficient in everything else. When we study one thing excessively we need relaxation, or sad consequences will ensue. One poor man read too much Gibbon, and he is now in a "decline...
...what is said at them, fills sheet after sheet with "notes," and at last, with a sigh of relief, throws down his book without having caught one glimmer of that light which, for those who see it, shines as brightly now as it did when the most ignorant man in Athens felt the roll of the thunder in AEschylus' words, and was the wiser and the better for it. Such an unfortunate result cannot always be prevented by the best instructor, but in most instances it can be, and in most instances with us it is not. This...
...attention of our readers to an article printed elsewhere on school-teaching. The subject is one of interest to us all, whether we intend to follow it as a profession or not. The view here taken is of no small importance, as it is the opinion of an able man, and one well acquainted with the requirements as well as the difficulties and advantages of such a duty. His experience alone is sufficient guaranty for the soundness of his advice, and we would recommend all to read it carefully...