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...manage the athletic grounds in question. On the 1st of June, 1884, the field purchased was thrown open. During the fall it was used for football and lacrosse. The field lies on the south side of Derby Avenue. The question of expense was decisive against purchasing a place nearer the college. The new field is one-sixth of a mile nearer the college than the old grounds. Soon after purchase fourteen acres of the land was cleared for use. The track is just a quarter of a mile long, and was laid out under the care of Mr. Rogers. Plans...
PRESIDENT ELIOT RESORTS TO TEACHING.-A few days since President Eliot was seated in a horse-car going to Boston. Nearer the door sat two young Harvard students. As the car stopped and an aged lady entered, the young men sat unmoved, which was evidently noticed by the president, who, quickly arising with a polite bow, gave up his seat and took a position on the platform. The incident carries a lesson with it to unconscious young men who pore over Greek and give up seven-eights of their time to athletic sports...
...remedy for this seems to be as follows: That the field be marked off with lines parallel to the goal line five yards apart; that in all cases of lining out the ball be carried to the five-yard line next nearer the goal of the side having the ball; that the snapper-back here take possession of the ball; that the teams then line out on the next five-yard lines toward their own goals, respectively. The opposing lines are then ten yards apart, with the snapper-back midway between them. This plan would prevent the players from remaining...
...Oxford is interesting to me as one of the two centres of English culture, and as I wander in these gardens and look at these time-warn and ivy-covered walls and towers, I seem to be nearer, by a little, at least, to the men who have gone out from these classic shades. Here I am shown the cell where Thomas Cranmer was confined, and there I stand on the very spot where Latimer and Ridley were burned. I enter the noble quadrangle of Christ Church, and remember that it was founded by Cardinal Wolsey, and that John Locke...
...well known fact that the larger the college, the more numerous its corps of instructors, the broader its curriculum, and in brief the nearer it approximates to a university, the greater becomes the estrangement between instructors and students. It is here that the smaller colleges have the advantage of us, and it is an advantage of no mean importance. Many a parent has been induced to sent his boys to colleges which in every other respect are inferior to ours, because he feels the personal influence of teachers, is of far more importance than what of mere knowledge he could...