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...methods employed in German schools, the hours of study, the studies themselves, peculiarities of teaching and gradation of pupils. The paper is on the whole a clear and concise exposition of the "German way of doing things," a system which has so many advantages over the American in certain respects, that it behooves progressive students of this country to ascertain the why and wherefore. Mr. Fowler states authoritatively that at the time he entered Harvard College the average age of his German classmates was under sixteen, while that of his class at Harvard was about eighteen and four months...
...strong team; fourteen men have been entered, and it is probable that the most of them will compete. Hopkinson's will again rely on that fine young athlete, Brewer; he won three first prizes for them last year, and will win the same events this year. He will certainly lower the interscholastic quarter mile record and possibly establish new records in the other two events also. Dove, Greed and Freund are other good Hopkinson men. Phillips Andover and the Boston Latin will both send eight men. Not much is known of the strength of any of these men, but some...
...Uncle Kim" is a careful and praiseworthy sketch of a certain type of man, old and whimsical. peculiar to the small villages of New England, and there are several original touches in Mr. Cummings' description which are attractive...
...might almost call the May Monthly an Elizabethan number, as two of the three prose articles relate to Queen Elizabeth and certain phases of life of her time. Mr. Baker, the English instructor, contributes the first of these two articles-the title of his essay being "The Children of Paule's." In it a charming and interesting picture is given of the choir-boys of St. Paul's Cathedral, their life, duties and pleasures in the good old days when the Tudor family reigned over England. Much space is given to a description of their acting and the literary effect...
...matter entirely in charge of Robb '93, who anchored on the freshman last year. The training consists at present of five or six pulls of two minutes each against a wagon spring, light work on the chest-weights and a short run. It is not by any means certain that Harvard will be represented in this event at the Mott Haven games, but a team chosen from the present candidates would have for anchor, Robb '93, 170 lbs.; for rope men, Wood '91, 157 lbs., Macallister '94, 140 lbs., and Ganson, '92, 130 lbs., or Eddy...