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...think of cross-questioning him on his return from the holidays as to what he had been doing, what books or newspapers he had read. This curious mixture of subjection and license might have worked well if French boys had the same taste for out-door games as the English, and could be trusted to make a healthy use of their freedom; but political accidents have combined in an odd way to check all athletic tendencies among the youth of the State schools in France. Most of the lycees were in old time richly endowed schools under monastic rule; they...
...firmly held. The game originated in France, in the 15th century, and Louis XI., Henry II., and Charles IX., were expert players. M. Borre, who died in 1873, for many years superintendent of the tennis court at the Tuilleries, was considered the best player who ever lived. The oldest English tennis court was built early in the 16th century, in Hampton Court Palace...
...studies as were advised by his Harvard instructors. He has returned, having with him studies of Venice, views of her palaces, interiors, and also a copy of V. Cappaccio, which, with a few pictures painted since his return, make up the exhibition. His style is in sympathy with the English water-color artists and has a touch of pre-Raphaelism about it. Mr. Bridgman has taken a studio at Cambridge, and there may be in this a fillip to "the Cambridge school...
...science to cram on superficial primers in a way which is very unsatisfactory." What it proposes is to have two lists of admission requisitions, one prescribed, the other elective. "Under the first head let those studies be placed in which every boy should be trained before entering college, as English composition, arithmetic, elementary algebra and geometry, modern geography and American and English history." There also should be placed "some language or languages other than English; but whether in addition to French or German, both Latin and Greek should be required of all candidates may be doubted...
...accessions in the department of antiquities and folk lore are particularly interesting, several old and scare titles being here entered. It is pleasant to note that Prof. Childs' "English and Scottish Popular Ballads" occupies a prominent place in this list. The library possesses No. 197. There are only 1000 copies...