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Prolix Lecturer Explains What Base Ball and Cricket Mean
Salience | Noteworthy |
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Location | New EnglandNew England |
City/State/Country: | MA, United States |
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Immediacy of Report | Contemporary |
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Text | "This, then, is what cricket and boating, battledore and archery, shinney and skating, fishing, hunting, shooting, and baseball mean, namely that there is a joyous spontaneity in human beings; and thus Nature, by means of the sporting world, by means of a great number of very imperfect, undignified, and sometimes quite disreputable mouthpieces, is perpetually striving to say something deserving of far nobler and clearer utterance; something which statesmen, lawgivers, preachers, and educators would do well to lay to heart." |
Sources | S. R. Calthrop, A Lecture on Physical Development, and Its Relations to Mental and Spiritual Development (Ticknor and Fields, Boston, 1859), page 23. |
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Comment | Maybe Calthrop means "have fun, don't talk so much?" Calthrop was to become a Unitarian minister. He avidly played and taught cricket in England as a young man. [For his other sports connections, see #1851.5 and #1854.13 above.] Edit with form to add a comment |
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Submitted by | David Block |
Submission Note | 2/27/2008 |
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