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...assure you that I had not been at Oxford or Cambridge long before I appreciated the superiority of the English method. I saw at once that my previous knowledge of rowing amounted to nothing. It was all-wrong, and I at once set to work to master the proper system...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ROWING AS AN ART. | 4/11/1884 | See Source »

...cannot undertake to return rejected manuscript unless accompanied by the proper postage...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 3/25/1884 | See Source »

...support of public schools is that it may promote its true well-being, and perhaps defend itself from irreparable disaster; and that if this is to be assumed, then it is equally clear that it is not only its right, but its duty, to compel attendance under proper limits some efficient school, public, parochial, or private...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMPULSORY EDUCATION. | 3/25/1884 | See Source »

...that it has been definitely settled that the remaining lectures of the Historical Society course are to be delivered in Sanders Theatre, we should like to suggest the use of the stereopticon for producing maps of the desired size. If it is possible to obtain or construct a proper screen the rest of the undertaking ought to be easy. The desired maps can be easily photographed. The negatives thus formed make the lantern slides. A lantern, or more than one, is in the possession of the college, and there are men here who know...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 3/20/1884 | See Source »

...graduates and undergraduates who attend this particular meeting in preference to the ladies days. We think that much of the cause is due to the lack of a director of athletics, or trainer, as such a man is more commonly called. Such a man is needed to give the proper instruction in wrestling, jumping, etc., which events go to make up the programme of these meetings, just as much as for instruction in track athletics later in the season. Much is also due perhaps to the general unsettled tone which has pervaded all branches of sport during the winter. This...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 3/15/1884 | See Source »

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