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...Saturday you can see spirited contests in running, leaping, cricketing, foot-balling, rowing and (mind you) all of this is a part in the physical education of the boy? My experience has been with American boarding-schools, that the faculty does not place sufficient confidence in the lad, and his "honor," part of character is dwarfed. These annual sports at Harrow were very enjoyable. Fine, manly boys, happy as the lark, and perfectly ignorant of the big old fight of life before them. I saw a running match of one hundred yards, one for a quarter of a mile...
...himself graduated from Harvard some years ago, reports that his nine year-old son is in serious trouble. The lad has been told that he is to enter college when he is eighteen and by a not too complex mathematical calculation he has figured out that this will place him in the class of 1900. He is accustomed to hear his father speak of his class as that of '75, and reasoning by analogy, he has arrived at the conclusion that his own will be the class of '00. "And, papa," he says, "of course nobody would want to belong...
...will oblige. A Harvard lad who is permitted to assist in editing an undergraduate journal, and yet does not know the difference between a communication and an editorial, and charges upon editors the errors of their correspondents, begs piteously that we will hereafter allow him to prattle about Mott Haven without reproof. Ever ready to accommodate, we readily grant the boon, and also go still farther by engaging a new acquatic correspondent who will hereafter furnish to The Spirit a hebdomadal letter on Harvard rowing, couched in the style so dear to the heart of the aforesaid petitioner." - Spirit...
...high rate of speed on the irst lap compelled him to run slower for the last lap. However he spurted on the home stretch and covered the distance in 50 1-4s., three-twentieth of a second less than Brooks, who previously held or lad therecord of 50 2 5sec. This was the third record broken at the meeting and Baker's beautiful running won long and continued applause, not only as an exhibition of endurance and speed but also of graceful racing...
...part of thorough education, and wish to treat it as earnest study, not idle pastime; as a duty instead of a diversion. As regards individual training, they wish each incoming student to be weighed, measured, examined and tested by an expert professor, who will carefully take note of each lad's physical peculiarities, and prescribe for him a course of systematic exercise, so devised and arranged as to accelerate slow growth, strengthen weak organs, cultivate neglected muscles, and gradually educate and train each individual into a man, physically sound, healthy, well-balanced, and evenly developed...