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Going to France where the student is kept until a later age under the supervision of instructors than with us, we find in the lyceum careful discipline and school-boy training...
...Arnold, but also was in some measure forgetful of the interests of the students. The honor might be slight, but the interest and value in hearing the son of Tom Browne's Doctor Arnold, and a man who has played so distinguished a part in the literature of his age, can not be well estimated. Mr. Arnold is perhaps best known in America as a great critic, who in these days of materialism boldly stands forth as the advocate of the ideal, as represented in his wish for more "sweetness and light," and as the scorner of all that...
...annual sports of the Westminister school in England, a youth under sixteen years of age ran a quarter of a mile in 59 4-5 seconds...
...Oxford is always a strangely fascinating city. Why is it so much further removed from present-day life than its rival university town-Cambridge? It is needless to enter upon an analysis of the fact, but so it is. Oxford belongs to the middle ages. Its spirit is both academic and ecclesiastic. The university is Oxford. The city lives for the university. All the deliciously beautiful architecture of the quaint old city is, in one way or another, connected with the university. All in all, there are twenty-five colleges affiliated with the university; and besides these, all of which...
...passing we may mention that the youngest man in '79, who graduated at the age of 18 years and 1 month, led his class...