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...other college in the country. But this cost is partly offset by the fact that it is possible to earn much more money here than elsewhere; the scholarships are larger and more numerous, and the chances to find tutoring are better. So it often happens that men can get along here with less outside help than at any other college...
...reviewer continues: "Professor Laughlin's work is an extremely pains taking collection and methodical arrangement of all the facts needed by the student, the statesman, or the editor to fit him for taking part in this battle. Along with the collection of material we have a clear and dispassionate argument, not of the controversial sort, maintaining the views held by nearly all economists of the present day on the subject of monetary standards...
...majority of cases, a wholesome belief in one's abilities. There are some, however, who never recover from the first rude awakening from their dreams of their brilliant possibilities. Because they cannot be first they will be nothing. If they have means to live upon, they will drift along in a life of cynicism and pessimism; if not blessed with wealth they will follow that occupation which offers them the means of subsistence with the least effort on their part. Had they only learned the lesson that man's happiness does not depend upon the height to which he rises...
...produce the gastric juice. The muscles of the stomach are described as consisting of three layers. At the lower opening is a muscle called the sphincter, which opens and shuts the outlet into the intestines. The mucous membrane lining the stomach is continuous with that in the mouth, running along down through the oesophagus. When the stomach is empty it is thrown into folds, which become smooth as it fills up. Alexis St. Martin, who was the means of furnishing most of our knowledge of the functions of the stomach, was under observation for thirty-two years. On stimulation...
Then in study, while Harvard certainly has more than its share of men who merely slip along without doing more study than is absolutely necessary, yet it may confidently claim that within its halls there is as much hard work done and as good results obtained as at any other institution of learning in the world. Certainly there are men who spend most of their time in the gymnasium or on Holmes or Jarvis Field, or rowing on the river, but even these do some work in college, or at least those who don't probably wouldn...