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...athletic systems of the two countries differ in many respects. In Denmark, much more attention is paid to the all-around development of the body than in this country. Much attention is given to such athletics as gymnastics and wrestling. From the time the boys and girls enter primary school they are systematically instructed by trained experts along these lines, with the result that by the time they graduate from the secondary schools they are physically well developed...
...undergraduate be informed beforehand concerning the nature of his courses? Most of us did not come to Harvard for the single purpose of training our memories, however valuable such incidental training may be. There is another department in the University devoted to the psychology of this subject. Moreover, authorities differ as to the effect upon the memory of loading and unloading the mind under forced draught...
...several years the University has supported more or less cordially three undergraduate magazines. The Advocate, the Illustrated, and the Monthly differ in details of aims and methods, but they have in common the one main purpose of publishing the best writing of undergraduates...
...Polo Club has had a career not merely of drinking, about the desirability of which men differ, but of prolonged drunkenness, which all sane men agree is bad. This time the drunkenness was on a public occasion, not in Cambridge, but in Boston, under the eyes of the newspaper reporters, who are only too eager to seize and spread abroad scandal about any large college. The Polo Club has wronged the Freshman class and the College in the public eye. Why the College and the class should be the only ones to suffer, and the Polo Club, as such...