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...VERDANT GREEN," "Tom Brown," and "Five Years at an English University," afford any amount of information about the chapels, dining-halls, "quads," and student life in general at Oxford. But I do not remember that any one of them gives the best time made in the quarter-of-a-mile race or the one-hundred yard dash; and this is the point I wish to come to, namely, Athletics. The question is frequently asked, "Why do the English university men excel the American students in everything relating to Athletics?" And quite as often the answer is given, "Because they...
...members of English 5 are to write a story for a child four years old, to be handed in (i. e. the theme) next Friday...
...found of material aid; for a large part of the editorials in the daily papers differ in no respect from the written work required from us. And when to the practice in writing we add that knowledge of European and United States history, of political economy, and of English literature, with which we may go from here so abundantly provided, no better foundation for a successful journalistic career can be asked...
...reason to believe that we can place boating on a firm footing, put an end to its hand-to-mouth struggle for existence, and arouse for it some such steady interest and genuine liking as that which makes the formation of good crews so easy a matter in the English universities; and maybe we can have as good a time with rowing as they...
...history or philosophy, or rather a greater love for literature, not be allowed special honors in general literature, without confining himself to classics or modern languages? Why would not the stimulus and incentive for honors in some such courses as Greek 9, 11; Latin 5, 8; Italian 3; English 2; and either English 3 or Spanish 3 be just as beneficial, to a man of a purely literary temperament, as the courses laid out in history or philosophy or mathematics for men who have tastes in that direction only? It is not claimed that the establishment of such a department...