Word: bloodless
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...cases of fainting, all tight clothing must be immediately removed. The bloodless face of one who has fainted shows a like condition of the brain, so it is often necessary to lift the feet far above the head that the blood may return to the brain. When you use water, do not mince matters at all, but let the patient have plenty of it, and that square in the face. In cases of convulsions, be careful to protect the patient from hurting himself. Something to prevent the teeth from coming together should always be put in the mouth...
...less important as a factor of college life. And this is not to be regretted; for, in proportion as the narrower spirit of class declines, a broader university spirit springs up in its place. Harvard has reached a successful mean between a too intense class spirit and a too bloodless university spirit, barring perhaps a partial survival of the former in her freshman class, one anomaly of the many anomalies of that institution at Harvard. That class spirit will ever entirely disappear from American colleges as now organized is impossible, if it were desirable; but that it should be carried...