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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Members will please write all orders for Bacon's Manual of Gesture now; some delay may be experienced by those who neglect this...
...such efforts are held to meet with little appreciation in this country. The new topography will be constructed simply in order to secure the varied conditions of shade, moisture and temperature, so far as possible, demanded by the plants. The plan is fully to illustrate Dr. Gray's "Manual" which comprises the plants east of the Mississippi River and north of North Carolina. Efforts towards a completion of the collection were made last summer, and, with the stock already in the greenhouse, a pretty full representation will be made at the start. When completed, the collection will give the best...
...many of the students of the colleges are engaged in by those who least need them. The amount of strength required to compete in any of the ordinary sports is far above that possessed by the average young man. In reply to the statement that some may benefit by manual labor he says : "Not one in fifty of our schoolboys and girls does a day's manual labor in the whole year round : indeed the majority of them never did one in their lives. They grow, but they do not develop. It has been argued that the system of athletics...
...mean rowing, cricket, foot ball, lawn tennis, and other athletic exercises generally. Athletic training turns out thousands of brave, brawny, healthy young Englishmen, who are utterly unable to earn their own living at home, and who, if they emigrated, could, as a means of support, only look to manual labor, in which they would have to compete with Cornish miners, Lancashire navies and Irish peasants...
There are now but few American colleges which can put a team before the butts, the Institute of Technology, and the University of California being the only two now registered in the Rifle Manual...