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...grammar. But during the last two years, instead of having an opportunity to widen his personal knowledge of Greek plays or of Latin poetry, he is obliged to devote his energies to text criticism and details of syntax of a few specimens of literature. This system practically makes wide reading an impossibility. A student has but little time for outside work, and thus graduates even with honors in classics, without having read one half of the Greek drama. Consequently he finds himself far behind English or German young men whose range of reading is enough to discourage the most energetic...
Besides these boats Mr. Blaikie is building a very light four-oar-almost a shell-without any coxswain's seat, to be used only by men of some skill. It is a boat twenty-two inches wide with two small laps. Another very heavy four-oar will carry a coxswain: it is thirty inches wide; and a lapsteak. Two lap-streak pair-oars are to be built by Blaikie and three wherries. These wherries are singles about two feet wide, lap-streaked and high enought to stand the roughest water ever seen on the Charles river. These boats though very...
...feet by twelve with a place in front for store and shelf for a scorer. In the front of the house, which faces the river, there is a large sliding window six feet across. In front of the house and running the whole length is a platform eight feet wide, from the front of which extend two raised walks for sixty feet to the screens, behind which the traps are placed. Before long it is hoped to build a number of lockers so that the members will have a safe place in which to keep ammunition, cleaning tools, etc. When...
...professors and instructors have been selected from a wide range of other universities and institutions of learning, and the same liberality has been shown in the selection of these instructors from all religious denominations. Naturally the largest number are Congregationalists, but there are also representatives from the Baptist and Methodist denominations; from the Roman Catholic church, and perhaps even from others. The same thing is true of the students themselves. They come from families belonging to all denominations and have clubs made up of members from all the principal preparitory schools in the land. These facts may be characteristic...
...earth works in the valley none is so famous or so interesting in its religious signification as the Great Serpent Mound. The mouth is wide open and is evidently just about to swallow the oval shaped figure which is almost between the jaws. In this oval is a heap of stones, the altar on which the sacrifices were made to the rising sun, towards which the whole oval points. Here, in the altar, the oval and the serpent, are the three symbols of Asiatic religious rites, and that these mound builders crossed the Pacific ocean from Asia is a fact...