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...years should be taught at the preparatory schools. It is a question whether the progress necessary in public schools can be obtained without optional studies. A youth of 18 cannot obtain even a fair mastery over all the subjects which today are offered for a secondary education. Those who think otherwise think that the five languages, mathematics, history, and all the other studies can be acquired if the boys would only use all the time at their disposal. The solution of this grave problem lies in the hands of the teachers of the secondary schools...
...employ more men. It would be highly undesirable for many reasons that in any sport many more than about this number should compete at one time. Here, at Harvard, it is true that only two regularly organized nines are in training; a sufficient cause for this, we think, is the lack of room for any other nines to play. If there were more grounds it would be quite possible to organize class nines; besides, in this case there are a large number of men who would be glad to indulge in occasional or "scrub" games. What remedy President Eliot...
...think it a wretched game," President Eliot is made to say, "but as an object of ambition for the youth to go to college really it is a little weak. There are only nine men who can play the game, and there are 950 men in the college, and out of the nine there are only two desirable positions, I understand-that of pitcher and catcher-so that there is but little chance for the youth to gratify his ambition. I call it one of the worst games, although I know it is called the American national game...
...itself cannot be affected by its value for collegians only; and we take President Eliot's criticisms on the limited number able to play in the game to refer to this only. Many people, whose opinion in such matters is equally entitled to respect with president Eliot's, think the game an excellent and highly interesting one; hence President Eliot, before indulging in wholesale condemnation of the game, should take care to set forth good reasons for his opinion. To call a game "wretched" and "one of the worst games," obviously in itself is a very poor argument. It certainly...
Most men will, we think, endorse the protest of our correspondent, who signs himself "R," against two rows a day by the crews. What is now a pleasure and a means of recreation will become a business so irksome that many who now enjoy their daily row on the river will only go to the river from a sense of duty, and a false one at that. It is not right that preparation for the class races should prevent a man from bestowing even a fair amount of work on his college duties. They are unmistakeably first in importtance...