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...speed takes in eight times as much air as one in a recumbent position. There is always in the chest a hundred cubic inches of air; an ordinary respiration takes in about thirty, a deep one a hundred, and the maximum amount of air which one's chest can contain at a time is three hundred and thirty cubic inches. By the use of diagrams the functions of the heart and lungs and their dependency upon each other were clearly explained...
Prof. Dyer has in the hands of the publishers, Ginn & Heath, his edition of "Cron's Introduction to Plato's Apology." The book, which covers upwards of seventy pages, will contain a translation from Cron's German edition and numerous additions by the American editor. The work is expected to be out in a few weeks, in time for use by the freshmen. This is the second of the series edited by Professors White of Harvard and Packard of Yale - the first being an edition of the first book of "The Odyssey," which has not as yet been given...
...present a highly artistic appearance. In height it will be three stories besides the basement, the latter having a dining-hall, kitchen, storerooms and boiler room. The first floor is to have a central hallway, parlor, smoking-room, library and matron's suite of rooms; the second floor will contain four suites of rooms, with a study and bedroom for each suite, and a large bath-room; the third floor will have three suites of rooms and a fine lodge room for the secret meetings of the society. The total cost is estimated...
Prof. Lewis Campbell's revision of his edition of the "Theaetetus" of Plato, which first appeared in 1861, will contain more than one hundred pages of new matter, and is expected to appear early in February. Prof. Campbell has also just completed an English translation of Sophocles, which will shortly be published by Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., and to which he has prefixed a long prefatory note...
...journal which will be issued weekly during term time by members of the University of Oxford, both graduates and undergraduates. The periodical is intended to represent every shade of Oxford life and is to be established as a real and worthy organ of university opinion. It will contain, in addition to numerous general articles, reports of the chief clubs and societies of the university, important Oxford sermons and all university intelligence...