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...following table shows the age, weight and height of the men who will represent Harvard tomorrow. The first eleven are given as they will probably line up against Yale...
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...number of these schools, but in all there are some thirty-five. The larger schools have many more scholars than our own, and the attainments of the boys are greater. At all these schools chapel life is a most essential feature. Dr. Temple's superannuation which fixes the age for sixth form men at nineteen prevails at many schools. The classics are the basis of classification, and a sixth form man often takes lower form mathematics. Music is much fostered; their Eton boating song so popular here is not so highly regarded in England. The songs are written...
...offering of opportunity to study French, or German, or Latin, or any two of these languages, from and after the age of 10 years...
...teachers. The prescriptions of the course prevent a bright boy from advancing faster than any other. He may of course attain a higher rank but he must stay in the same division with the dull boy. In consequence under this compulsory system the dull boy lowers the age of matriculation of the whole class. These new changes will reward the work of all with due promotion and the brighter boys will not be chained down and made to wait for the rest...