Word: claiming
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...love with the Classics; for how could I otherwise lay any claim to respectability? Can he be a scholar who does not know that AEmilia Secunda, the younger daughter of Lucius AEmilius Paulus, married Marcus Porcius Cato, the son of Cato Major? or that Hermogenes Tigellius was a music-teacher, probably a Greek, and perhaps an adopted son of L. Tigellius? Assuredly not. These and similar facts constitute the very basis of an education...
...modern, and a due loyalty to the customs of our more enlightened ancestors. It is difficult to understand how any right-minded individual can advocate a course of study that contains less of Latin and Greek than the average college curriculum; yet there are those of acknowledged ability who claim that the discipline of the Classics is overrated, that it is no more adapted to the fullest development of every mind than is the discipline derived from any other single branch of study: hence they would institute the elective course. Absurd. They cannot have read Walker, who would teach...
...were the time at our disposal, nothing would be esteemed a pleasanter amusement than the privilege of capturing this noble fish in the streams of the Dominion. The other is a timely article on a game which in this country is gaining ground slowly, for which, however, its admirers claim much. The present position of cricket is well stated, and all who are interested will find their pleasure served and instruction gained by reading this. The article on "Wilmington and its Industries" is one not so attractive to our minds, and seems somewhat out of place in a magazine...
...gymnasium is deservedly popular. We have due respect for its importance in physical training, all due honor for the conquests in the field or on the water, in which it has had so large a share. But, as far as the majority of students is concerned, we claim that it has, or ought to have, a powerful rival in the simple exercise which is the subject of this article. For the professional gymnast, the athlete who aspires to honor with the bat or the oar, the training of the gymnasium is wellnigh indispensable. But for the scholar, whose thoughts...
...certainly gained. Without doubt, he is the shining example of that trait so graphically expressed in the vulgate by the term "cutting a dash." But was he alone in this? Is it not possible that there is something of the same tendency in ourselves? Of course I do not claim that it is developed in any of us to the same degree it was in that representative man, for the very good reason that few of us feel desirous or able to spend the three or four millions required annually to support the spread-eagle style on such a scale...