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...Gray's early life, to the age of thirty, is briefly described in some thirty pages of autobiography. His correspondence is then taken up from the year 1831, when he was twenty-one years old; and it is the aim of the editor to trace the varied interests and occupations of his life by means of carefully chosen extracts from his own letters. These were, of course, largely on scientific subjects; but when the majority have been omitted, there yet remains enough to give an idea of the personality of the writer...
...paper has "justice" for its by word it must sometimes deal thus harshly or it fails in its mission. In this spirit of justice we feel ourselves right in criticising adversely the work of the freshman eleven. It is an old story-and only the worse for its age. To begin with, the freshmen have little or no discipline in their work and right here is the basis of the other faults. The men seem to feel that it makes no difference how they play so long as they do not actually stand still; attention, and above all implicit obedience...
...anthropometric chart which Dr. Sargent displayed in the Harvard exhibit in Chicago was one of the most valuable objects to be seen. His old chart compared developments in a lump, while with the new charts there is one for each age at which development takes place, so that every fellow can compare himself with others of his own exact age, and with the normal of that age. The normal American student of the more advanced age is represented by the statues exhibited at Chicago...
...turning from personal experiences, he compared the spirit of different ages, the ancient, the mediaeval, and the modern. The one thing that makes each succeeding age better is simply that men have grown more and more to think of others rather than themselves. In the middle ages a banquet-hall might be built over a dungeon by the best men of the time, but now the world has out-grown that...
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