Word: teach
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...team play results. Give Harvard, with her superior material, such foot-ball advantages as these, and our eleven would be the best in the country. To these add scientific coaching such as the Yale eleven gets, -coaching that would enable us to take our largest and best men and teach them the game, instead of taking what material the schools give us, -and we should have an eleven corresponding to those gentlemen cricket elevens in England, that beat the best professional elevens...
...ball at Yale under Mr. Camp's coaching, and to learn about the wonderful work done by coaching at Adams Academy some years ago when the school was large,-to be convinced that foot-ball can be taught ; that it would be better to take the best men and teach them foot-ball, just as we take the best men and teach them how to row ; and that Harvard with an untrained eleven can never expect to contend on even terms against Yale with an eleven scientifically coached by Mr. Camp. Our victories in rowing and our defeats in foot...
...duties as President by Dr. J. O. Murray, who, as Dean of the faculty, is to have charge of the order and discipline of the College. Dr. McCosh will continue as head of the College as well as President of the School of Philosophy, where he will teach Psychology and the History of Philosophy...
Another consideration of value according to the writer is "the fact that in a great city those who teach partake of the earnestness, activity and force by which they are surrounded, in which they live." The writer also takes into consideration a few of the advantages a smaller town offers to students. "That which has always carried the greatest weight with me is the closer life into which students are brought by a college in an isolated situation. Young men act and re-act upon each other. They stimulate each other. They relentlessly pursue, and they most effectually...
...HOMES OF ENGLISH GRAMMAR.It is one thing to teach good grammar, and another thing to speak it. The President of one of our New England colleges, in a lecture delivered in this city last Sunday, said : "Here then is the consequences in the worst possible form of it." And again : "Not only is this so manifested as that philosophers see it." He also spoke of India as "a province that is not profitable except there shall be the cultivation of opinion." He was probably in a condition similar to that of the actor who knew his part so well that...