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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...given to both mental and physical training. While yet at school, the boy became proficient in the lighter exercise, a certain part of each day being devoted to work in the gymnasium. At the age of fifteen, the regular course of instruction in athletics was begun, which fitted the youth to participate in the great games, "field meetings" we would call them now, held every year at Athens. Higher honors were conferred on the victors in these games than fall to the lucky prizeman at Oxford or Cambridge...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON.-We wish to express our sympathy for yesterday's letter-writer; that ingenuous youth, who "cannot conceal his embarrassment when he hears his own blunders laughed at." We suppose the poor fellow cannot keep back the scalding drops that rise unbidden to his eyes each time the instructor dares to say his English is faulty. Poor fellow, we sympathize with you. We, too, have had pet themes sat upon, but we didn't have sense enough to make public our feelings on such occasions. Seriously, if the subject was so painful a one, why did the gentleman...
...fear that some of the wisdom of the "sarpint" lay behind this Eton boy's request. Are there no trots at Eton for a man to consult when he is "stuck" in Greek? We should like to see that guileless youth's collection of autographs before we believe his little tale...
...cites the experience of the Germans to support his assertion. "German educators," he says, "have given Modern Languages an important place in their schools and gymnasia, and for the last two decades have been, thereby, rewarded with the most gratifying results in the general linguistic training of their youth. Nowhere else has stress been laid upon the philological study of these idioms, and the natural consequence has followed that faulty methods have been rooted out, the standard of their appreciation everywhere raised, and rich fruits garnered in their advance in academic discipline. It was this religious regard for the spirit...
...English foster-mother, in walling itself from the outside world. Our own impression is that, in colonial times, the college was too poor to erect an enclosure, and that, later, it world have been deemed contrary to the principles of the Declaration of independence to fetter the American youth with the restrictions of the domicitiary system...