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...enter a crew of college men representing a college organization in an event which takes place at a time when the real activity of the college has ceased, and its members are no longer engaged in their regular college work. Strictly speaking college athletics is meant to be an adjunct to college study. It should not be permitted to attain undue prominence during the season of serious college work, and it is a little inconsistent to continue it after that work has ceased. Such a course is particularly ill-advised when it necessitates an expense for transportation to a distance...
...entered the Medical School. After taking his degree of M. D., in 1850, he spent two years in Europe studying anatomy and surgery at Paris and obstetrics at Dublin. He began practice in Boston in 1853. In 1855 he was appointed demonstrator of anatomy at the Medical School and adjunct professor of surgery in 1866. From 1862 to 1883 he served as surgeon in the Massachusetts General Hospital, and during the war was assistant to the surgeon-general of Massachusetts and a member of the State Medical Commission...
...hospital is the most successful adjunct of the school. Its earnings last year were $20,126.50, and its total expenditure $17,948.04. This is an excellent showing, because the general depression in business considerably impaired its revenues. During the past year four hundred and ninety five horses and six hundred and forty-seven other animals were treated within its wards. The full limit of accommodations has been reached, and it is imperatively necessary that the present quarters be enlarged and that a dog infirmary be added...
...should be so directed as to supplement and improve the condition of the other. As the years devoted to education are essentially years of physical growth and development, why should not a more rational attention to the care of the body be encouraged and provided for as a necessary adjunct to a collegiate education? Every student who attends Harvard University should have the opportunity of taking some systematic form of physical exercise. The exercises offered for selection should cover the broadest possible range, including every kind of athletic sport and gymnastic game. Before making his choice, the student should have...
...SUCCESSFUL COMBINATION.- The best article of the kind we have seen in a long time is announced in another column of this issue by Paine's Furniture Company. It is called a "Smoking Table," and is a combination, in beautiful and compact form, of every possible adjunct to a smoker's comfort. Our readers should not fail to read the announcement...