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...seen, therefore, that the times and rates of joining are not determined by any artificial impulse. There are two periods of maximum increase - the one about the 1st of June, the other near the 1st of October, which depend directly on the wants felt by the men at those times, and which consequently cannot be hastened or retarded by any artificial means. On the other hand, they may be depended upon with a tolerable degree of certainty...
...greatest receipts were at the beginning of the academic year; a second rise occurs in January, owing to the large sales of stationery and the change in the books, etc., the membership then being at its maximum...
...rows three miles at the top of his 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...
...very well that complaints should in some cases be sent, and even when a condition has been received, but for a single 38 or 39 per cent., as long as the other marks were reasonably high, it really seems pretty hard to arouse the parental ire. The freshman maximum physics paper was unusually difficult, and naturally about one-half of the section failed. Some of these unfortunate men who passed in all other studies received 38 or 39 per cent. A notice was sent asking for "co-operation in impressing the importance of increased diligence." Can not the faculty take...
Members of maximum sections in Freshman Greek are required to provide themselves with a copy of the Alcestis of Euripides...