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...possible. It seems, too, that it is a mistake to suppose that the employment of a professional coach by one college forces its rival to employ a professional. In rowing, the introduction of the "English" stroke was due to the discovery of it at Oxford, and all sort of experiments with professional coaches have failed to induce a belief that for college races any professional stroke can be found that is better...
...gentlemen who were engaged in the operations described and who in addition have given particular study to the subjects of which they treat. Two or three of the lectures, however, will be given by civilians, but by gentlemen none the less competent to discuss their subjects. Lectures of this sort by such finished historical scholars as John C. Ropes and Dr. Channing cannot fail to be of interest, if for no better reason as presenting an instructive contrast in the point of view of the military operations described, taken by the civilian and by the actual soldier...
This is peculiarly the period of munificent generosity in public donations and particularly of gifts for educational purposes. Large endowments of new or long established institutions by the wealthy are of almost every day occurrence. A gift of this sort is hardly considered worthy of notice by the press unless it be among the hundred thousands. The example of Johns Hopkins in endowing the university of his name at Baltimore and of Judge Packer in founding Lehigh University in Pennsylvania, emphasized recently by the additional bequest of his son the late President Packer of the Lehigh R. R., of some...
...interesting one for investigation, either in its historical or its theoretical aspects. It is said to be a commonplace of criticism that no good thing can come out of a prize essay. A recent writer instances Prof. Bryce's "Holy Roman Empire" as the only composition of this sort that has proved an exception to this rule. We do not know of any cases of prize essays from American colleges that can be called such exceptions. It is possible that there are such, however, and it may be that the list of Bowdoin prize dissertations might furnish such a case...
...various places, comments of which the following are specimens: "Good, very good!" "Oh, of course," "A good one," "Right you are," "A trifle exaggerated, friend," "How astonishing," etc., etc, Moreover, this patriotic person has taken pains to prevent his comments from being erased, by writing them in ink. This sort of thing is to be expected in the books of a public library, used by a miscellaneous class of readers; but it is humiliating that a student in Harvard College-for we cannot but assume that a student was the guilty person-should not know better than to commit such...