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...Methodist attempt to meddle with Medicine brought another tart rebuke last week. The Voice of the Board of Temperance, Prohibition & Public Morals of the Methodist Episcopal Church had blasted at the "lying, murderous campaign of the American tobacco trust" to get women to smoke. The Voice had cried: "Sixty percent of all babies born of cigaret-sucking mothers die before they reach the age of two." Investigation showed that the Voice got its research from hearsay and a man whose name resembled that of a doctor whom the American Medical Association calls a quack...
This is shown by comparing the absences from college duties during the weeks of no classes and the rest of the year. During the January Reading Period of last year students sick days totalled only 66 percent of the average for the other months of the college year. In the May respite, the percentage...
...return seems to bear little relation to the remarkable outlay required of him in September. The reason of course is clear enough, the cost of handling and storage are so great that in order to make a fair profit the dealers in such literature have to pocket about twenty percent of the list price...
...result of the Make-up Examinations, 23 men have received Dean's List standing. Together with the number which received B averages at Mid-years this makes a total of 567 men or 17.5 percent of the undergraduates, that have attained Dean's List ranking. This is a slight decrease when compared with 17.6 percent of the students making Dean's List grades last year...
With these results the ratio of men making the Dean's List in the different classes remains almost the same as at Mid-years. At that time, 24.9 percent of the Senior Class received this honor, together with 18.4 percent of the Juniors, 13.2 percent of the Sophomores, and 13.9 percent of the Freshmen...