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The subject of Dr. Sargent's lecture yesterday was "How to Develop the Chest." He began by giving statistics of the death proportion from consumption and tubercular diseases, arising from an imperfect development of the lungs and heart. Such affections are often inherited, or result from occupations and circumstances which...
It is not difficult to understand the public sentiment in the matter of college hazings, "rushes" and other misdeeds. It is, perhaps, naturally expected that the college student, with his superior training and advantages, will behave with more decorum, and exhibit more "respectability," than other members of the community, due...
A college of the progressive tendencies of Harvard should be the last to repeat the old stock complaint against college journals, that they are principally fault-finders and nurses of discontent. The better class of such papers certainly studiously endeavor to abstain from all complaining that is not likely to...
The value of a college education, and particularly its practical and money value, notwithstanding its satisfactory attestation by the world for so many centuries, seems still to furnish an interesting and debatable question for a large number of estimable people, and especially for Americans, to consider and discuss. It will...
Despairing freshman - No, we don't think it unreasonable that your examination in physics should consist almost entirely of problems and formulas. The college expects that you are all going to become engineers or scientists. It is moreover a splendid discipline for the mind to cram a mass of formulas...