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...busy days of the final examination, when every man is, or tries to be, hard at work. Whether the work, and consequently, the noise that accompanies it, is unavoidable, is not for us to say. If it can be left to some later day, it would certainly be a relief to the students who have rooms in that neighborhood...
...feeling of relief is felt throughout the college, now that the crucial test of the Princeton game is past. The nine henceforth goes on to victory, with the belief and trust of the whole body of undergraduates to strengthen and encourage them...
...must have rest, or they soon become worn out. The heart must make use of the 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...
...chief magistrates has been brought before the people twice within the last five years. Mr. Hoar's bill provides for certain exigencies in a way which his opponents declare to be opposed to the constitution. The bill is now a law and as such will be discussed. The great relief which the country experienced upon the settlement of so disputed a question is said by some to be a false security. The debate, while being upon one of the most interesting topics yet discussed in the Union, promises to be one of the most closely contested of the year...
...homes from the school room, and many other such practical ways. The teachers make tours with the pupils in the surrounding country, map in hand, and thus the meaning of the various geographical signs used on the maps is almost plastically impressed upon them. Such devices as making relief maps of sand and drawing charts of given districts are resorted to in no small measure. Gradually a wider view of the world's geography is given them, but without that ridiculous heaping of dry facts and statistics so common in our teaching. The brain is not loaded down with long...