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...certain table at Memorial, the glass pickle-jar has been carefully labelled "Poison...
Speaking of our Co-operative Society, the Dartmouth says: The fact that Dartmouth is situated at a distance from any large town having much rivalry among its tradesmen, would, to a certain extent, prevent our formation of an association run on exactly the same plan: but yet in very many things co-operation among students would greatly lessen expenses. Books, stationery, furniture, coal, tobacco and all such standard goods might, through an association, be procured at wholesale rates, and furnished to students at much lower prices than they are now obliged to pay. The matter is well worth investigation...
Bodily exercise formed a most important factor in the life of the ancient Greeks. In the course of study prescribed for an Athenian boy equal prominence was given to both mental and physical training. While yet at school, the boy became proficient in the lighter exercise, a certain part of each day being devoted to work in the gymnasium. At the age of fifteen, the regular course of instruction in athletics was begun, which fitted the youth to participate in the great games, "field meetings" we would call them now, held every year at Athens. Higher honors were conferred...
...half of a flattened disk, with an orifice on the curved side for the hand; these they threw behind them when in mid-air, and this gave them additional impetus. By the aid of these weights tremendous distances were covered; for instance, Herodotus tells a little story of a certain Greek who had a record of fifty-five feet; and this statement is probably true, for they loosened the ground to a distance of fifty feet, so that they must have expected them to jump that far. After the leaping came the javelin throwing, in which the object was distance...
...desirous simply of passing the examinations; but there, the best scholars, those who are working for the prizes, are the men who avail themselves most frequently of a tutor assistance; indeed, it is considered impossible for any one to get a scholarship, unless he has got through a certain amount of cramming at the hands of a professional coach...