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THEY play cricket even in India. A team of Parsee cricketers, the champions of India, will visit England next June with the object of playing a series of matches against English clubs...
...following eminent English writers are to receive the degree of D. C. L. from the University of Edinburgh: Lord Houghton, Sir Joseph Whitworth, Samuel Smiles, and Francis Turner Palgrave. The ceremony will take place next Tuesday...
...little pamphlet, sets forth three truths, which applied to Greek are as follows: first, Greek language should be taught rather than Greek grammar; secondly, it should be taught as a living rather than as a dead language, in the spirit of Greek rather than in that of English; and thirdly, it should be learned by observation rather than by rote, by principles rather than by rules, with intelligence rather than with blindness, and with pleasure rather than with pain. In short, Mr. White would have Greek to us a fountain of living waters and not a dead sea. To remedy...
...cannot let pass the opportunity of joining with the Advocate, in earnestly hoping that Mr. Childs will consent to deliver in Cambridge his lectures on English Ballad Poetry, so that the members of the University and others may hear them. We were almost inclined to be jealous at the good fortune of the people of Baltimore, until we saw that such a feeling would be unreasonable; we remembered that, until last week, no desire to hear Mr. Childs's lectures had been publicly expressed. We do not think that any modesty on our part should keep us from expressing...
ATHLETICS.THE Athletic meetings at the English universities are still going on, and the performances so far have been above the average in merit. The fields of start in these college events have been very large, and all the sprint races have been run in heats. The large number who train at these colleges offers a most striking contrast to the small number of trained men who take part in our races...