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...animal a strong shock opposed by a strong force causes an unpleasant sensation, while a weak shock against a weak resistance has a pleasing effect. In plants also there is a great difference in the effects of varying shocks and resistences...
Professor Bose illustrated the inhibitory effect of alcohol, chloroform, either, and potassium cyanide on various plants and finally demonstrated that the nervous system of a plant, ten times more sensitive than that of an animal, may be controlled...
...been said of Harvard, and truly, that it is not a "back slapping community". But this indictment must be somewhat millifled when the effect of caps an dogowns on a class are considered. Instinctively, men of a class are drawn together by their common robes, and new friends are made in the last part of a Senior year. Gowns are a force for democracy in a class. They should be ordered by Seniors now, and when the time comes, worn as frequently as possible...
Although in 1913, with the exception of Great Britain, the reserves of the other powers were each estimated at over a million, the United States has no reserves whatever. The present task of Lord Kitchener bespeaks the effect of Great Britain's policy. There is a general confidence in our volunteer system. Experience has shown that many hundreds of thousands would readily respond to a call, and this mere statement of the numbers available is apt to produce a false feeling of security. General Leonard Wood, M.D. '84, has declared that 300,000 men would be necessary at the outset...
...members of Princeton University are required to pass a stipulated test in swimming before they are eligible to receive diplomas. This rule was put into effect with the class entering in 1911 and so will apply to the present senior class at Princeton. The test requires every man to swim 200 yards using the back stroke and one other recognized stroke. It was found that about 60 men in each class were unable to swim at all and about 100 were poor swimmers and from this it was thought expedient to introduce some rule to overcome this. In England, Germany...