Word: thinge
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Concerning cricket at the University of Pennsylvania, Mr. Clark said : "At the University of Pennsylvania there is no doubt that cricket will thrive. Philadelphia continually turns out young cricketers, and most of them go to the University of Pennsylvania. But one thing is needed to consolidate the Pennsylvania eleven into a very strong team, which would be capable of doing well against any of the local clubs, and that is the same that Harvard needs - a new ground; but, fortunately for Pennsylvania, they are in a fair way to get what they want. Their provost is interested in the game...
...athletic contests afford an excellent chance for the specialist to display his abilities, and only specialists enter them. In their case the entire energy of the system has been concentrated on the development of special powers, and every thing else is set aside as useless. This is the great objection to athletic exercises as they are at present conducted. Symmetry of development is never thought of, nor is it ever acquired by exclusive reliance upon any of our popular sports. Indeed, we would venture to select from any group of recognized athletes the oarsmen, the ball-players and the gymnasts...
...same spirit that enters into all the matters of life and is a most necessary part of that life. That at some colleges it is apt to bring about such perfection in a few individual men to the discouragement of the many is unfortunate, but this is the same thing that happens in any course of study or other pursuit. No one claims that the study of oratory or mathematics does not accomplish an excellent purpose simply because some men have more talent for those pursuits than their comrades and so reach a greater state of perfection...
Without desiring to be impertinently suggestive to those who know their duty, it would perhaps be a good thing as the mid-years approach, to draw up a list of the different characteristics of that season that seem to need a remedy. There will be no use grumbling after the occasion has passed, and the best time for mentioning the subject is just before the preparations are made by the authorities...
...fill all the professorships "with graduates of one of the leading colleges." "Furthermore," says the Sun, "we have not been indifferent while the peculiar institutions of that college have been initiated, or rather transplanted here, until Cornell almost begins to appear as a second annex." What a terrible thing an "annex" must...