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...classes at the Social Union begin this week with the exception of the dancing and the telegraphy classes which begin during the week of October 16. Between fifty and sixty classes are offered, including all subjects ordinarily taught in a high school and many subjects that are not taught in the public schools at all, such as courses in instrumental and vocal music, courses in business training, book-keeping, shorthand, typewriting and civil service. As in most evening schools, the classes are composed largely of working people, including both men and women. College men, however, may take the courses...
...easily defeated the Harvard eight by six and a half lengths in the time of 10 minutes and 9 1-5s. Notwithstanding the evident superiority of the Cornell crew, Harvard's defeat was due to poor rowing. The men disregarded not only the stroke which they have been taught for the last two months, but even the elementary points of rowing...
During the past ten years Mr. Dohs has had full charge of all indoor gymnastic work, including the training of the University gymnastic team, the conduct of the daily 5 o'clock classes, and, until recent years, the instruction in fencing. He has also taught at Dr. Sargent's Normal School of Physical Training, and has been gymnastic instructor at several schools and clubs in Boston and vicinity...
...exemplify the practice of learning, though they refrain from embodying it in any formal treatise, --Vittorino da Feltre and Guarino of Verona. Both founded schools in Italy and both, by advocating a liberal education--bodily as well as mental exercise, Greek as well as the Latin culture--together taught the many scholars who for centuries kept alive their fame. From these two men and their successors, Ferrara and Vittoria Colona, proceed the greater number of those scholars who afterwards carried the new learning out into the world, not only throughout Italy but into the countries of the west, far beyond...
...selected by the University of Berlin from a list of professors available for such service which was furnished to the Rector of the University of Berlin. Professor Peabody's lectures will be on the subject dealt with by the department which he has organized and in which he has taught for over twenty years--the ethics of the social question. His lectures will probably be divided into the following two classes: "The Social Question in the United States," and "The Christian Character in the Modern World." The lectures will be an application of ethical theory to the social problems...