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...When an amateur horseman takes a jump, one of two things is apt to happen. Either the man is determined to take the jump and does, regardless of whether the horse has stopped or not, or else he gets over the jump only to land with his arms lovingly clasped about the horse's neck. The only thing that has kept many a man from falling off after a jump," added the captain "is the fact that the horse's ears were pricked up. If they had been pointed forward, the rider would have slid off immediately...
Bernice Ridhardson. President Mark Embury Penney of Millikin University (Decatur, Ill.) had just read newspaper accounts of Miss Lanun's suicide and was thinking how terrible it would be if such a thing should happen in his institution, when news reached him that pretty Bernice Richardson, 20, one of his freshmen, whom he had just interviewed, had been found moaning on the floor of her room. She had drunk carbolic acid; died within an hour. In their interview President Penney had had to tell her that, since she had failed in French course, she could not register...
...shudders to think what might happen to a college curriculum if the undergraduates suddenly decided to purify the courses offered for the instruction, or destruction, as the case may be, of the young. There were at least four questions on a recent examination that we took, or were taken by. And we might very well have completely ignored those questions, letting the professor think that we were either zealous reformers, all two of us, or that we were refreshingly ignorant of the Facts. And he would know all along that we weren't at all. In Fact, we probably taught...
...TIME. In TIME, Jan. 24, I notice under MILESTONES : "Married, Constance Towner, daughter of Gov. Towner of Porto Rico; to one Lester B. Young; in San Juan, P. R. Hers was the first marriage in 400 years at the Executive Mansion, onetime Spanish." This statement is incorrect as I happen to have been present at the marriage of Miss Bertha Allen, daughter of the first Civic Governor of Porto Rico, to Captain George Logan, U. S. N. This marriage took place at the Executive Mansion...
...true that everybody is living longer than his forbears, and how does that happen? wondered Surgeon Mayo's hearers at Washington. The average length of life was 20 years in 1650; 40 in 1850; 45 in 1875; is 58 now. This improvement is so, he declared, be cause people are learning to take better care of themselves. Said he: "The dangerous age of a woman is from 16 to 18. But the dangerous age for a man is from 50 to 55. If you can't keep your eye on them, lock them up. . . . Gland transfusion is the bunk...