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...important of which are the "Great Didactic," the "Gate of Languages" and the "World Illustrated." The object of the first of these was, as expressed in the subtitle, "to teach everybody everything" and "to search out a rule in accordance with which the teachers teach less and the learners learn more." Knowledge, virtue and religious conviction, the three things to be sought after in life, are to be obtained through study. To educate humanity so as to give it an adequate consciousness of itself and to make it useful and happy are the aims which Comenius had always in view...
...first crew are generally not deliberate enough to do what they have in mind. The work is rough, the time is poor. They ought to learn that they must be exactly together in catching the water and in getting the hands away. Stroke is too short; 7 rows well; 6 is too slow; 5 is unsteady and pulls his arms in too hard; 4 rows poorly; 3 needs a little more snap in the general rowing; 2 is too new at the work to criticize; bow is too short and very apt to get the stroke reversed...
...Club was formally opened Thursday by a dinner given to the Alumni, Faculty and students. Dr. James Madison Taylor of Philadelphia. Dr. Ormond of the Princeton Faculty, and representatives of the four classes made addresses. The club would not have been opened until Saturday had not the Executive Committee learned of a plan on the part of the boarding house mistresses in the town to close their doors at noon yesterday to all who had signified their intention of joining the co-operative club. To frustrate this design the Executive Committee put extra men to work, night as well...
...great extent supplements the work of the college, giving a certain interest to study not always to be found in ordinary college routine, and encouraging a desire for special research. In a sociable way the members of these organizations meet and teach each other much that they would not learn from long study under one professor. The different interests which each of the members feels in the subject under consideration bring out different points of view, many of them very valuable. The work of these college clubs is little recognized outside of the college, although their influence is shown year...
...there being only three days in which to arrange a tie game, many of the arrangements might be made beforehand provisionally, and if any base ball town like Worcester or Hartford were settled upon for the tie game, in three days, as we learn from one who has had ample experience in managing Harvard teams, all necessary arrangements could be perfected finally...