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...crew as a whole are very slow on the recover, and rush their slides badly. The work is not smooth enough and there is too much splashing. The principal fault, however, is that the men fail to use their stretchers...
...more or less as a school ship. The men on board are kept in practice all the time, and young fellows like me are sent here and learn the tricks of the trade and how to be generally useful. This is the main deck." - It was broad and very smooth and clean and sunny - "These old guns are not much use now; they're muzzle loading smooth bores and would stand no chance against a modern iron-clad; those two on the other side are breech loading steel guns, and are used for salutes." Tables were placed between the guns...
...verse in the present number, as a whole, is not as good as in former issues. Mr. H. E. Fraser's lines, In the Night, although not always smooth and musical, show much purity and simplicity, and their genuineness more than atones for any lack of polish. Mr. F. S. Palmer's verses in his Ode to Herrick, are more musical and better tuned. They cannot fail to stir a genuine lover of Herrick. Mr. A. B. Houghton's Ballad of Pleasure Seekers, though far above the average of college verse, is not, we think, quite up to the standard...
Miss Gertrude Franklin was the soloist. Her voice is pleasant in quality, but lacks the power to make the most of such a piece as the first aria. The second, which called for nothing more than expert and smooth vocalization, was more within her powers. The audience, which was rather small on account of the bad weather, was sufficiently pleased to recall her after each number...
...lower opening is a muscle called the sphincter, which opens and shuts the outlet into the intestines. The mucous membrane lining the stomach is continuous with that in the mouth, running along down through the oesophagus. When the stomach is empty it is thrown into folds, which become smooth as it fills up. Alexis St. Martin, who was the means of furnishing most of our knowledge of the functions of the stomach, was under observation for thirty-two years. On stimulation of the stomach by any means the gastric fluids begin to flow. It is said that drinking large quantities...