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...intervals between beats to obtain necessary repose. The cause of sleep is the using up of potential energy. When we are fatigued by excessive mental labor, prolonged sleep will not bring the needed relief. The causes of sleeplessness are, excessive study; underfeeding and improper food; breathing impure air; neglect of exercise; and worry. Strong coffee and tea are productive of insomnia. Alcohol when taken in small quantities, keeps one awake; when taken in large quantities it produces not sleep, but stupor...
...Columbia Spectator for Jan 13, 1886, contains a short notice which will be of interest to the Globe and other papers that have been ignorantly talking about Harvard's neglect to reply to the challenge of the Columbia freshmen. The Spectator says...
...exact state of his pupil's knowledge. So it comes about that or promotion into a higher class, a boy is allowed to give up entirely some branch of study which is strictly relegated to the "elementary" departments. A study which suffers more than any other from this absurd neglect is geography. Because "reading, writing and geography" are the first things a boy is taught in school, he naturally gets to consider them as elementary and childish as he grows up; but this notion ought not to be fostered by the school system itself. The vast majority...
...faculty of Cornell has issued the following proclamation: "That, for the present, attendance at recitations and lectures shall be made voluntary for students of all classes; provided that in case any student shall so neglect his work by absence or otherwise as to impair or endanger his own standing, or the scholarship of the class, he may, after due warning, with the approval of the head of the department in which the neglect occurs, and with the approval of the president of the university, be excluded from attendance in the class and from the ensuing examination...
While our chances are good for a brilliant record of victories at Mott Haven next spring, yet the neglect of one man who considers himself suitable for any or the contests, lessons the certainty of such a record. Extreme diffidence in such matters is to be deplored. Many men are dissuaded from presenting themselves thinking that a place on the team is a mere matter of favoritism. Nothing can be further from the truth for, under the supervision of the H. A. A. and Mr. Lathrop, success in track athletics and a position on the team is a matter...