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...McCosh's latest work on psychology, recently published by Scribners, has been adopted as a text book in colleges in Japan and Ceylon; and students in the State University of Calcutta are required to pass an examination on the book before the degree of A. B. will be granted...
...need of fresh air in all exercise is very great, and this is the great objection to all in-door exercise. The actual results of impure air arising from too many people in one place, is shown by the sufferings of those confined in the "Black Hole" of Calcutta. Huxley has computed that a man needs 23,000 cubic feet of air every day, that his excretions of carbonic acid may not pollute the air. Pleurisy not only affects the lungs but the diaphragm, which is the principal agent in drawing air into the lungs. The enlargement of the pleura...
FOOT-BALL.The annual international contest between England and Scotland, at the Rugby game, occurred recently at Edinburgh, Scotland, and resulted in a tie. The Calcutta cup, therefore, goes back to England, where it was held last year...
...treat, though the city is only about two hundred from the college proposing it. But is it central enough? There are colleges as large as some of our Western institutions in Turkey and the Sandwich Islands, and where there is a college there must be a paper. We suggest Calcutta, or, if the weather is too warm, St. Petersburg, and only await our editorial free pass to go there next summer...