Word: consumptionism
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WE are indebted for the following facts to the investigations of Drs. Bradford and Cutter: Of 113 Harvard students who had rowed in intercollegiate races up to 1870, 10 were killed in the war, and 2 died of diseases contracted in the service. Of the remaining 101, 1 died of...
The Harvard Scarf is another example of the carelessness with which the term is employed. Every one knows that men at Harvard who have any regard for "form" never wear made-up scarfs; it is much more "English" to tie them yourself; so the fitness of the appellation is lost...
THE average daily consumption at Memorial Hall is: Of flour, about two and a half barrels; of milk, one hundred and twenty gallons; of meat, one thousand pounds. Four hundred and fifty pounds of turkey are usually demolished in one dinner, and it takes a barrel of fruit to furnish...
And just here is where the present arrangement at Memorial Hall is inefficient and does a real injustice to a majority of students; since it does not provide for that large body of men who find it necessary to go outside to get the food suited to their desires. It...
THE announcement of the death of Professor JOHN RICHARD DENNETT will not be a surprise to his friends, but even those who have watched the growth of the seeds of consumption must be shocked at the termination of such a life.