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CLASSICAL LANGUAGES. 1. Discuss the plan of the battle of Salamis and the movement of the Persians that preceded it. 2. Why does Aeschylus make Argos, not Mycenae, the home of Agamemnon? 3. Discuss the effect of appeals to sympathy and gratitude upon impartial justice at Athens...
There is in the long run no simple influence so conducive to health of mind and body as a proper amount of physical exercise under the proper surroundings. The lungs feel the effect of exercise more than any of the organs. Smith found out by experiment that every exertion which he made increased the amount of air he inspired. He represented the amount of air which he breathed in when lying down as one. When standing, he took in one and one-third times as much. When walking at the rate of four miles an hour, fives times as much...
...interesting discussion followed on the nature of the penalty of cribbing or cheating, which terminated in a second recommendation to the effect that the penalty of cheating of any description in examinations or in themes, be separation from the college. This was passed by a unanimous vote...
...teaching at Harvard University. Mr. Sidney Bartlett, the Father of the Massachusetts Bar, told me that the three-years' course at Harvard was equal to seven years' work in an office. Mr. Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes and Dr. Eliot, President of the university, spoke to the same effect. Dr. Eliot related with pardonable pride that at a recent dinner of old Harvard men a prominent young advocate had declared that, when he was a student, he had often heard it said that the course at Harvard was equal to ten years' actual work; that he was then incredulous, but that...
...will take less study to get in here. But they forget that the man who does not learn Greek will have to pass at least as severe if not severer examinations in subjects equally hard. This process of raising the requirements must sooner or later have a very beneficial effect upon our common school system. The higher our colleges are, the better will be our academies and high schools...