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...previous agreements are annulled and at any time certain specified articles of the present rules may be suspended by the mutual consent of both captains and with the approval of the referee. The race shall be deemed an annual event; but, in case of the inability of either college to enter a crew. notice to that effect must be sent to the other college before the first day of December of that college year. The referee must be a graduate of some neutral college and each boat club shall have the privilege of naming him in alternate years. Yale having...
...hemorrhage, if not promptly attended to, proves fatal, as a rule. Its symptoms, though sometimes concealed, are usually visible, these being weakness of pulse, difficult respiration, coldness in extremities, and clammy perspiration. Arteries and veins run side by side to every part of the body, even in the tissue of the blood-vessels themselves. The artery leads into the vein, which then broadens out to a greater size than the artery, thus allowing the blood to return more slowly through them to the heart. The principle arteries are two running up the neck and branching over the face and brain...
...speaking was good as a rule; a certain monotony of tone, however, characterized most of the speakers, and some of the best work showed too much careful the previous training of the declaimers. The gesticulation, on the whole, was crude, but in some cases it was remarkable rather for its finish than for its aptness. The carriage of the majority of speakers on the platform, evidenced a serious lack of ease. The movements that were made were too often jerky. At times the stiffness of the whole action of the speaker detracted seriously from the spontaneity of the rendering...
...Franklin Elmer Ellsworth Hamilton, Home Rule. - W. E. Gladstone...
...Klenz, The Parting of Hector and Andromache; Homer. Webster, Daniel O'Connell; Wendell Phillips. Winter, The Prisoner of Chillon; Byron. Bowen, Cambyses and the Macrobion Bow; Paul H. Hayne. A. C. Coolidge, The Greek Revolution; Henry Clay. W. L. Currier. Abolition in 1830; W. L. Garrison, Hamilton, Home Rule; W. E. Gladstone. Stedman, Against Whipping in the Navy; Commodore Stockton. Sternbergh, A Defence of Massachusetts; Anson Burlingame. J. E. Walker, The Death of Garfield; J. G. Blaine...