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...meeting was marked by the passage of the following resolution: "Whereas, reducing body weight has become a national mania, and "Whereas, many women and girls have injured their health by reducing nostrums and wrong and injurious methods of dieting, and by bringing themselves below their normal healthy weight, while others are dangerously overweight, and "Whereas, there are at present no adequate tables which tell women what they ought to weigh, therefore be it "Resolved, that we urge the women of America not to imperil their health and that of future generations by reducing methods other than those advocated by reliable...
...Edinburgh, agriculture at Cornell; George S. Pryde. St. Andrews, history at Yale; Clifford B. Purves, St. Andrews, chemistry at Johns Hopkins; Richard A. Robb, Glasgow, statistics at Chicaco; William Rule, University of Durham, physics at Cornell; Howel Williams, Liverpool University and Imperial College of Science, London, geology at California; Normal C. Wright Christ College, Oxford and Callus, Cambridge, agriculture at Cornell...
With 1,000,000 miners idle and seemingly intent upon continuing so, the Government by an elaborate system of coal rationing cut normal consumption 50%. The King, after planning a holiday at Aldershot and Sandringham, canceled the special train which would have conveyed him thither in order to save coal. The normal railway service was cut 40%. The channel boats coaled exclusively abroad, and large shipments of foreign coal arrived on every steamer...
...This obtains even though the workmen who build them get high salaries and work normal hours: therefore, their efficiency is greater...
Recently a statistical sheet was made out giving the required hours for the normal man in averages per day to win a degree, were he to anticipate a goodly number of courses as an undergraduate. The result was a trifle startling--he could do so if he were to spend ten hours six days a week for three and one-half years. Since this is nearly a physical impossibility, the student will have to spend surely about four years in order to attain the degree. However, for those who are willing to make the effort, the fruits seem...