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Gymnastics, expatriated from Germany in some degree, were well received in France, and there formed an integral part of education. An attempt made by Prof. Volker, a pupil of Jahn, to transplant them into England was not crowned with equal success. In the meantime all official opposition to them ceased in Germany, and they were finally introduced into the public schools from the lowest to the highest grades in 1842, when Turner's societies, into whose organization the quickening genius of Jahn breathed the life and growth, were flourishing all over the country. Soon after this, physical culture...
Arrangements have been made for an authors' reading, to be given in Sanders Theatre, Longfellow's birthday evening, February 27th, the proceeds of which will be added to the fund. The movement is wholly independent of the Memorial Association, but has, of course, its warmest wishes for success. It is expected that the following authors will take part. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Christopher Pearse Cranch, Edward Everett Hale, Julia Ward Howe, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, William Winter, John Boyle O'Reilly, Arlo Bates, George Parsons Lathrop and Louise Chandler Moulton. Tickets will be for sale in Cambridge and Boston...
President Eliot and one or two others expressed the opinion that athletic victory or defeat has no influence on the attendance at any college. Others, among whom was President Dwight, held that while there were doubtless, some persons who were inclined toward one college or another by its athletic success, the public opinion as regards the number of such person is greatly exaggerated. The general opinion was that such circumstances as athletic victory or defeat do have some effect; but the influence they exercise is confined to a small class of persons...
...occurs another of the series of athletic contests in the gymnasium. These exhibitions have not been a success, owing to the non-interest in them by the college at large. We are not greatly disappointed that the number of spectators is not larger. The season of the year is in a great measure the cause of this non-attendance; but it seems to us surprising that so little feeling is manifested in the competition by the contestants themselves. We await with interest the outcome of the repeated editorials published this week in behalf of these contests...
Hickson's shoes have met with great success in every college in the country since their introduction in November last. Will be at JAMES W. BRINE'S, 10 and 11 Harvard Row, until...