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...year it is well to make a slight review of the past, to see if we cannot gain some inspiration from it to aid us in the future. Considered in an athletic point of view, the past year has been moderately successful;-to be sure we put the Mott Haven Cup again to our credit and earned all the rowing events in which we were represented, but in base-ball and foot-ball, the sports in which the popular interest is especially centered, we were weighed in the balance and found wanting. It is easy to see what caused...
...evident if any good came from this "cramming," but, on the contrary, a man forgets the few facts he has crammed together in his brain quite as rapidly as he learned them, and has nothing to repay him for his trouble excepting the severe mental strain he has been put to, which may be an injury to him perhaps all his life. There seems to be absolutely no good at all in work like this in a great majority of cases. But what can be done to remedy it ? Nothing, we think, so long as the regular system of examinations...
...judges to accomplish the withdrawal of a player whom they feared, not yet a meaningless term at which all would laugh and no one fear. The other changes are slight, rule 11 being filled up by pushing back 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17. The ball is not put in play after a catch by two touching it; but if it touches the ground it is, the idea of the whole being to eliminate all "fisticuffs" but not affect the dash, spirit and courage required for the game...
...criticism. Instead of taking away anything from Emerson's real rank, it has really but defined it the more clearly, and placed him in the light in which posterity must view him. If, instead of carping at Mr. Arnold's frank and fair criticism, our people would only put away their own ideas and take Emerson as he actually is, it would much simplify the working out of a result which must be found true in time...
...visited Greece, and upon his return in 1850 immediately began collecting material for the Greek dictionary. He put forth what was a sort of precursor to that work, 'A Glossary of Later and Byzantine Greek' in 1860. Alibone says of his contribution in this kind of learning, that "it was a peculiar boon to scholars and must occupy a place with the glossaries of Ducange and Charpentier." In 1860 he received the appointment to the professorship of Ancient, Byzantine, and Modern Greek which he held until his death. He again visited Greece...