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...While we do not care to take up a discussion of the purely educational advantages which the two kinds of schools may often offer in different degrees there is one argument urged in behalf of the boarding school which we wish to discredit; the argument, namely, that a young boy, by the experience of a boarding school life, is made manly, self-reliant, independent. The words are often used with very little distinction, but the underlying idea is that the boy at an early age begins to enjoy the privileges and to be credited with certain of the powers...
...fourteen or less, a boy's place is at home. The influences which surround him should be home influences. The formation of his character can not safely be trusted to any one less interested in him or less intimate with him than his parents; least of all can it be left to his own real childishness under the excitement of a new life. And in this character the time has not come for the development of a vigorous independence; disregard of authority follows it too closely in young people. What the boy wants, and what he can best...
...very moderate grade of the Harvard College admission examinations is considered, it seems absurd that the average age of the entering classes should be close to nineteen years; yet such is still the case. Comparison with foreign countries in this respect is mortifying. In England, France, of Germany, boys of sixteen, or at the most seventeen, are as far advanced in their education as are college freshmen here. More than this, what they have learned they are familiar with in a way unknown to the boy who has here squeezed through college examinations which are often the sole...
...play, but to furnish the first stimulus to any real mental activity at all. Obviously there is here a serious incongruity between the desirable and the necessary in a college education, and the fault lies with the students themselves. By their devotion to athletics they give to the school boy just the stimulus which he least needs, and which is accordingly the worst for him. His youthful vigor might be trusted to work itself off in as much athletics as would be good for him; while the college should furnish the much more needed impulse to scholarly attainment...
...stage career is the more assured because the interest does not depend upon the rendering of any particular part by a star actor. For Mr. Robson's second week here he will offer an entirely new play, an original comedy by Adrian Barbusse and Sidney Rosenfeld, entitled "Dear Old Boy," with Mr. Robson as "Marmaduc, the Good...