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...case. Although the higher classes of Russians are able to speak two or more languages in addition to their own this arises from the manner of their training rather than from any in-born talent. According to the present system of instruction the study of Latin is far more difficult to the Russian mind than the study of Greek; the literary Russian must necessarily have acquaintance with one or more European languages and the dearth in literati among the Russians results rather from a lack of power of expression than any other special reason. The boys of the higher classes...
...Horace, selections from Demosthenes and Thucydides, at least two tragedies of Sophocles, and Plato's Apology and Crito. Most examinations are oral both in the gymnasia and the universities. The universities comprise four departments, the law, medicine, historical philological, and the physical, mathematical. The degree of magistri is very difficult to obtain, and is seldom gained before the candidate has reached thirty. Education is a means of liberation from military service and hence is eagerly sought. Although the gymnasia and universities are very superior schools the common school system of Russia is greatly neglected...
...when their crew came in a good third out of the five boats entered. This winter there has been a renewal of the boating fever in the school, and active preparations have begun. Abundant and good material is at hand from which to select, and it will not be difficult for them to find eight men suitable for a race of two miles. At present only the new men are practising, the old oars preferring to wait until the season is more advanced. Seven men are at work on the hydraulics under the care of Mr. E. T. Cabot...
...Bancroft, coach of the Harvard crews, is decidedly inapt for the Times' argument. Why Mr. Bancroft engaged in instructing Harvard students in one branch of athletics, should be pursuing any less respectable calling than Dr. Sargent engaged in instructing the same students in another branch it is difficult to see. Surely the fact that one is employed by the college indirectly, for the benefit of the students, while the other is employed directly by the students themselves, does not make the difference. No, there is professionalism and professionalism, and a distinction must be made so as not to include...
...part from the desirability of being represented at Saratoga, four-oared rowing is too fine a sport to be neglected in the list of Harvard's athletics. Fours are very different from eights, and in many respects much more scientific. An eight-oared crew is much more difficult to get well together, but a four requires of its crew a thorough knowledge of watermanship, and a delicate control of the oar, which but few men who have rowed exclusively in eights ever possess...