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Its influence has been of the very best. Much time has been spent there in healthful recreation and exercising, which would otherwise have been spent in loafing or something much worse. Larger numbers each year have taken advantage of the opportunities offered and a constantly increasing degree of health and...
"We have the boys, sir!" said the old gentleman, with marked emphasis and vivacity, his face lighting up; "we have the boys! They are fine boys! bright boys! good boys! There is in them the making of new Madisons, Jeffersons, Calhouns, Clays! We need such men in the South! We...
Mr. Ruskin is urging the University of Oxford to erect some new buildings for the art workers. He wants something better for them than the cellar now provided the students.
"It was not for the Liberal," says the London Times, "or for the Minister of the United States at St. James', that the St. Andrew's student voted; it was for the author of the 'Biglow Papers' and 'Under the Willows' and 'Among My Books.' Their candidate was the friend...
According to the Lancet, "brain tension is not a proof of strength but of weakness. The knit brow, straining eyes, and fixed attention of the scholar are not tokens of power, but of effort. The intellectual man with a strong mind does his brain work easily. Tension is friction, and...