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...very few schools in the country where boys are taught the literature of America. This is a crying evil and should be remedied. The question is how to do it? The editorial quoted suggests the remedy. It lies with the colleges, not with the schools, for the latter shape their curriculum according to the requirements for admission to college. Let us require, then, in our entrance examinations a knowledge of one or two of the principal American authors. The schools cannot help following our lead in this matter, and it may be the means of lifting from the eyes...
...which was persistently waged for so many centuries against the human body and its proper treatment, was most disastrous in its physical, intellectual and moral results. It destroyed the roots of ancient beauty and symmetry, and produced a series of corporeal deformities, distortions, disfigurements, weaknesses and imperfections in both shape and development, which, transmitted from generation to generation, are still conspicuous in the great masses of people. Happily a reaction in favor of the Greek point of view with regard to the relations of body and mind set in, and the "gray-eyed morning" of a new era smiled...
...perfect unity in dualism and to reason it out to its fullest extent. They recognized the truth that physical soundness is the basis of mental and moral excellence. They saw in a person's gait a key to his character, and strove to realize that beautiful symmetry of shape, which for us exists only in the ideal, or in the forms of Divinity, which they sculptured from figures of such perfect proportions.' Early in the history of their civilization we find that they bestowed great care upon the culture of the physical organism, for they knew that if the soil...
...modern and the ancient world and which our college papers have hitherto avoided as though by a better instinct, would be left to the treatment of master hands only. They might possibly be expected to show this episode in a new light. The melodramatic dens ex machina in the shape of a "golden star" is a bit wearying...
...poetry "Sigillum Academiae Harvardianae" is an old idea worked into a very pretty new shape. The last four lines which refer to the Seal of the University are worthy of quotation...