THOUGH TS FOR THE TIMES.
Spout and Education. Uis all very well to emulate —e Grecian love of athletics; but it should never he forgotten that the Greeks awarded tlie palm not. only to the boxer mid the thrower of the discus, brtt also to the historian altd the poet. To-day, with us. tlie tendency is to overlook the scholar and to consider olily the “sport.” The inclination is to consider the captain of the “tests” as a greater hero than the senior wrangler, the double first ns naught beside the double blue, the winner oi the honours’* at the class as inferior to the winner of the “colours” on tlie held.—Syilitay ikipeh i ...... inrft
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Hokitika Guardian, 1 June 1922, Page 2
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115THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES. Hokitika Guardian, 1 June 1922, Page 2
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