Word: ago
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...turns out that they" (who "labored, twenty years ago, to introduce physical as well as mental training into our educational system") "have succeeded only too well, the remedy is not to be found in condemning the boat, but in securing for the book its fair chance. And, by way of helping towards this, it may be well to point out that the athletic interest has been wise enough to employ one special lever which the intellectual interest has thus far overlooked, - inter-collegiate emulation...
...engraving by Baccio Baldini, one of the very earliest Italian engravers, born in 1437. It is a unique impression of a circular silver plate about four inches in diameter; one of a set of twenty-four, described in books as bought in Florence over a hundred years ago, and which were for many years the glory of the Otto collection in Leipzig. When this collection was broken up there were but eighteen of the original twenty-four left; these were sold, and the finest one in many respects was purchased for Mr. Gray at a great price, while the British...