Word: masters
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Prof. E. J. Ferris, the sparring master, is in Cambridge...
...here and hounds run will be given on Friday, October 10, at 4.15 P. M. Mr. C. F. Brandt, '85, has been chosen master of the hounds...
...students and graduaates of Eton, the great English preparatory school, are much perplexed over the interference of the Crown in the appointment of a gentleman to succeed the late Dr. Goodford, as head master of Eton. This being the first vacancy since the constitution of the governing body, the new provost will be nominated by the Crewn, a right which has always been hotly contested by the fellows in former days, as they asserted that it was a usurpation. The right of electing a provost was undoubtedly vested in the fellows by the statutes; in practice, however, they usually elected...
...Oxford need not be a very severe "grind" to a man rather inclined to take things easy. There is one restriction, however, put upon the personal freedom of the students, which perhaps seems strange and amusing to the students of Harvard, where every student is almost completely his own master...
...there occurs every year a race between these representative crews which corresponds somewhat to the Harvard class races. There are also at Eton many "scrub" crews, and boating is perhaps the most popular of all the sports. The boating men have a trainer appointed and paid like any other master of the school, and, in fact, the school government encourages the students in all their sports. The races between Eton and the other great preparatory schools are oecasions of great interest and excitement. The position most coveted at Eton is that of "captain of the boats," and the individual...