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...based a true estimate of ones physical condition. Realizing how much depends upon the proportion of the different parts of the body, he began his observations by an extended series of measurements. His next aim was to test the strength of the most important parts, for although as a rule, the girths of the different limbs represent the potential strength of their respective muscles, yet there are many exceptions, and the measurements have to be confirmed by an actual strength test. These trials were made by means of three spring-dynamometers, a spirometer, manometer, a pair of suspended rings...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON:- The rule of the faculty that precludes a student from obtaining a degree with distinction, who has at any time in his course received a D, is a law both unjust and impolitic. Its injustice lies in the fact that a man may have striven sincerely for three years to graduate with a cum laude and then perchance failed on some knotty half course through a natural inability to cope with his subject. Some men's minds are so constituted that they find it all but impossible to grasp certain lines of study, and after long...
Would it not be eminently fairer and wiser for the faculty to so amend the rule as to make the bestowal of a cum laude dependent upon a certain fixed proportion of A's and B's throughout a student's course and leave the question of D's entirely aside...
...rule shall be suspended if 20 men object...
...seems strange that complaints are heard of the low salaries paid the Harvard professors. Scrutiny of the treasurer's report shows, however, that every dollar which can really be spared from other things is given to the officers of instruction. But the fact remains unquestioned that, as a rule, the professors and instructors, old as well as young, are not rewarded in proportion either to their talent or their labor. Here and there a professorship is fairly well endowed, but the aggregate income of the college professorship funds is only about $30,000, while the annual payments to the instructors...