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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...
...recent introduction of the honor system at that college. "It has been known for some time," it cries, "that certain professors were very anxious to introduce into the university a system of honors resembling closely that in vogue at Harvard. In the first place it is an attempt to transplant into Cornell soil a plant which has flourished passably well among the cultured shades of Harvard. Perhaps it might be more exact to say that it is an attempt to ingraft upon the Cornell stock an offshoot of the Harvard system. For it is noteworthy that only that portion...
...other reasons, the authorities have made up their minds that it is better to have the societies outside of the Yard. Having made up their minds to this, they have exerted themselves to make the societies as comfortable as possible somewhere else. Associations with old rooms they cannot transplant, but what can be done they agree to do. The only expense to which the societies will be put is the insurance upon the building, which may amount to two hundred dollars a year, but which, when divided among four clubs, will not be a burden...