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...superabundance of animal spirits for which college students are noted, and which, in days before athletics became so prominent, gave much trouble to the instructors with injurious efforts to the whole college. Formerly it was displayed in 'town-and-gown' rows, rushing, and hazing; now it is disciplined by strictest training - a training which rigidly demands total abstinence from all that is injurious to body or mind - to turn it into some friendly, legitimate contest with other colleges...
...numbers, has awakened an interest in their welfare. Although it is too early to prophesy much, still a glance at the candidates will show that there exists fine material from which hard work and strict attention may form an excellent eight. The men, however, must be cautioned that the strictest regularity in coming to the gymnasium is necessary; it will never do for a man to present himself for a day or two and then be absent for the rest of the week. The captain complains of this irregularity, that. out of the thirty-five men who have signed their...
...perfect study of Greek and Roman antiquities. Leaving out of account the curriculum of classical studies common to our colleges in general in a more or less eminent degree, we assume for Harvard the sole enjoyment in America of a chair for the study of classical philology in its strictest sense and as it is followed in the German universities. Such a course was not calculated to reveal any extraordinary or immediate developments, but it is hoped that it will in time replace the stay abroad, which seems a part of the life of every rising philologist, and furnish sufficient...
RUSSIAN students have been placed under the strictest military discipline...
...Russian government, as is well known, has a constitutional antipathy to new ideas, and the strictest care is taken that none enter the Empire. Only subjects the study of which does not tend to spread dissatisfaction with existing institutions are allowed to be taught. It is quite amusing to see how the sciences are prepared for learners. To eat the fruit of the tree of knowledge is dangerous, so the Russian government removes from the knowledge to be administered all evil effects. From the gymnasia - preparatory schools with a seven years' course - the candidate is admitted into the university with...