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...Farnham's eleventh lecture was delivered last evening. The lecturer said that consumption attacked some races more than others. The Irish and Germans were particularly subject to its unconquerable power. All people are aroused when cholera or small-pox is prevalent, and yet they take but few precautions against the greater evil of consumption. Alcohol, syphilis, want of pure air and good food are all productive of this terrible disease. Inherited consumption can often be cured by proper habits and regulations of life. When anyone is told to take fresh air for his consumptive troubles, he ought to keep...
...Williams Fortnight contains the following Harvard notes: "The Advocate has been adopted as a text book in the English Lit course. - The faculty are at present sitting on the new petition for voluntary prayers. - A freshman has been suspended for cutting his teeth. - Beside small-pox, several cases of anglo-mania have broken out. The Crimson has them well under way, however. - Efforts are being made to remove Boylston Museum and Francis street to cambridge. - The conference have voted that (h)ashes must not be slung on the slippery floor in Memorial Hall...
...obscure member of the senior class has received the following despatch from his father in California: "Heard of the small-pox to-day. Come home at once...
...Harvard Crimson denies the report that there was a case of small-pox in the college, and sighs for the fostering of the rumor by the college press. The Princetonian pleads guilty to having inserted the clipping from a New York daily, and is glad to make reparation by seconding Harvard in denying the report. - Princetonian...
Twenty-two American students have left St. Laurent College, Montreal. They claim that they have had improper food and that small pox has broken out among the students...