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When Harvard, in 1841 made radical changes in the college curriculum, making Greek and Latin elective after the freshman year, the cry was raised by the more conservative colleges that this would be a death blow to the classics, claiming that students, when no longer required to take disciplinary studies, would immediately cease to pursue them. The result was quite the contrary. Greek and Latin became, and have since remained, among the most popular electives. When the work of the freshman year was made almost entirely elective, the same cry was raised by the classicists. Again, as we see, they...
...classics have received another blow. They are taken into account no longer in the annual competitive examinations for commissions in the English army. The innovation, however, has but little significance, one way or the other, in the discussions of the Greek question at present going on. It is doubtful if a man would prove either a better or a worse commander of troops upon a modern battle-field, simply because he happened to have read in Thucydides a description of the fighting around Syracuse. Wellington was a classicist; Grant...
...frameworks behind the glass, their heads propped high, their jaws agape, and their eyes staring in all the grim majesty of Death, as they gaze unflinchingly upon the guests who are thronging to this grisly reception. One is an old woman, whose skull has been split by some tremendous blow, and yawns in ghastly redness. Another is a young girl, who is dressed in silk and whose dark hair is still coiled neatly, just as those slender, livid fingers last arranged it. She bears no wound, but upon the small, coquettish face is stamped such a look of horror...
...which rush beneath the granite arches. This man was lured by his deadly enemy to a quiet place at a quiet hour and murdered. Can we not picture the sudden grapple and the terrible struggle, upon which the cold stars gazed down so unpityingly? No eye saw the savage blow, no ear heard the victim's shriek, as he was flung from the parapet. The night was deaf, and the darkness was blind, and nothing remained to tell the story but the clotted handful of the murderer's hair which the police took next morning from the rigid fingers...
...defeat. This was the only form which was used in the Pentathlon. Boxing was considered a professional sport, and did not enter into the games. They used no gloves, but the hands were bound up in strips of leather, which strengthened the hand and broke the force of the blow. The contestants fought until one held up his hand as a sign of defeat. Milling and blows below the waist were allowed, and, in fact, everything which could help to defeat an opponent...