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...usual diet. At the end of the month it was found that the former group were more alert mentally, more active and efficient physically, and possessed more endurance in every way than the others. The one drawback was that these men had no surplus, no energy stored up to resist colds or other diseases...
...excused on the style of these few lines. Being a Frenchman I could not resist expressing my extreme patriotic dissapointment in seeing the abominable play chosen to represent our literature so fruitful in very good works, before one of the greatest universities of the world...
...powerful have the state lobbies become that the legislators are beginning to doubt whether they have anything whatever to say about running the country. Accordingly the members of the Virginia house of Delegates have decided to strike a blow in their own defense, and--since it is impossible to resist the lobbyists--to avoid them. A bill is now before one of the committees to furnish each and every Delegate with a false beard and whiskers to the end that he may better avoid the sharp scrutiny of the lobbyists, and "to facilitate ingress and egress from the house without...
...University sextet more than fulfilled expectations at the Arena last night when it sent M. I. T. down to defeat by a decisive 9 to 2 score. In every department of the game the Engineers were outplayed, being unable either to break down the Crimson's defense or to resist the speedy attack of the forwards. The contest was featured by a schoolboy game between the periods, in which Cambridge Latin defeated Newton High...
...inference to be drawn from the foregoing is perfectly plain. Possibly it will be plainer when the first few bills are presented for windows broken by the inevitable few who cannot resist the temptation. Yale News...