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...which have already been printed, the first three in the Atlantic Monthly and the other two in the International Monthly. Professor Munsterberg in these essays compares the American and the German people as one who knows them both, and tries to show his adopted countrymen what lessons they can learn from the institutions of the Old World. As he says in the preface to the book, the essays were not written to be read in Germany, and should not be compared with the essays of a similar character which Professor Munsterberg has written for German readers. All through the book...
Another essay on "Scholarship," is an investigation into the admitted superiority of the German scholar over the American. Following it is a paper on "Women," with a delightful vein of humor running through it, the purpose of which is to show American women how much they can learn from their German sisters, upon whom they are too apt to look down. The remaining essays are on "The Americans and the Germans," and "Americans Democracy," and are of a more general character...
...both. It may be that the nerves and nervous nature of the American enable him to get a better start in short distance races; it may be that the stamina and endurance of the Briton enable him to last better in long distances. No doubt each has something to learn from the other. But we Oxford and Cambridge University men, like our athletic brethren with whom we have competed on the other side of the water, have taken up athletics not for a career or a profession but for exercise and sport. Nothing showed this better than the characteristic remark...
...winter lacrosse practice will begin immediately after the Christmas recess. It will consist chiefly of stick-work in the court behind the Gymnasium and will be mainly for new players who wish to learn the rudiments of the game. C. R. Stevenson '02, captain, and other members of the team will coach the men. The regular spring practice will not commence until the latter part of March...
...were given out before all undergraduate applications had been filled. In other words more than 3,500 other applications were filled before or during the assignment to undergraduates. Of this number only 1,565 are accounted for in the report in the item, "Players' and Coaches' applications;" and I learn from one who is in a position to know all the facts that this figure represents the tickets given not merely to players and coaches, but also to a large number of men to whom tradition has given the privilege of early application...