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...freshman class in Sheff. contains a man who is reported to have broken the college record for running high jump...
Terry's average at second base last season was .958. This is the best record ever made by a college second-baseman. It is rumored that he will play on the Metropolitans this year...
...which instruction was given there twenty years ago, and, as he claims, has continued up to the present time. He says that wholesome, intelligent study has been subverted to a rigorous system of hack questioning and recitation "marks." the object of which has been to show and record what the student does not know, rather than what he does. Attempts to interest the student in his work were then, and are now, rarely made, and through the great importance placed upon recitations pure and simple, the practice of "skinning" in all its forms has grown up. The writer remembers only...
...thoroughly read in history they are often unable to realize the true incidence of events. It is not sufficient to have read the newspapers for a number of years past, nor to have made a desultory study of history, in order that a man can read with intelligence the record of the present. There should be some one to point out the relation of what happens to-day to what has happened in the past; to amplify and explain this connection which newspapers either pass over entirely or speak of only in a misleading and blind...
While our chances are good for a brilliant record of victories at Mott Haven next spring, yet the neglect of one man who considers himself suitable for any or the contests, lessons the certainty of such a record. Extreme diffidence in such matters is to be deplored. Many men are dissuaded from presenting themselves thinking that a place on the team is a mere matter of favoritism. Nothing can be further from the truth for, under the supervision of the H. A. A. and Mr. Lathrop, success in track athletics and a position on the team is a matter...