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...nerves terminate in the spinal cord and none of them enter the brain, there could be no such thing as sensation, and parts of the body might be badly injured without the person knowing it. The law of eccentric projection is that by which we refer sensation to the end of the nerve on which it is received, instead of at the point of contact with exciting cause. Neuralgia is caused by anything that worries or troubles a person's mind. Malaria is also a fruitful cause of neuralgia...
...mathematics. Some of them when they have finished the Trigonometry bury it with more or less solemn rites; others burn it at the stake, and others resort to more hilarious performances. At Vassar the middle of the sophomore year closes the study of trigonometry and is also the end of the prescribed course, and the students thereafter are permitted to elect what branches they will pursue. It is therefore an important epoch in college life, and the "Trig Ceremonies" are always made the occasion of a general celebration by the sophomores, who invite the freshmen to attend and take warning...
...gain information, and at the same time form a style, those reasons ought to be considered in ones choice of reading. Someone has computed that an ordinarily busy man will read one new book every week, and will do this for fifty years. This will give him at the end of his days a sum of 25000 books digested and put behind him. "How immense the importance" adds the at least judiciously selected writer, "that those 25000 should be, if not the great standards of literature." The great readers, of course, run through their thousands of volumes, but the amount...
...such action be taken. We look, then, for a happy conclusion of the matter, or at least for a candid statement of the reasons influencing the Overseers, in case of an adverse decision upon the petition. Even supposing the present petition to be ineffectual in securing the desired end, yet the grounds upon which its rejection will be based will be invaluable as guides for the actions of those to whom we must entrust the agitation of this reform after our own college lives have ended...
...teaching and journalism belong to college men, and certainly deserve as much prominence as railroading and engineering. With all our feelings of welcome for the lecture to night on "leisure," we regret most heartily that it was not appointed for an evening at least three weeks later. The end of a most valuable course of lectures has come far too soon...