Word: specialize
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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Harvard men are generally strong in the legs, the extensor, flexor, and calf being as a rule well developed; and there is only about one case in ten where special exercise for the legs has been ordered. The usual weak point is the upper portion of the chest, and the neck, which in many instances is bent forward. This is generally the result of continual stooping over a desk, as many students have had little attention paid to their physical development while their bones were easily bent from their normal state. There have been no prevailing weaknesses, such as diseases...
...Harvard Register for February was received yesterday. The second number is in all respects an improvement on the first. Nearly all the articles have a general interest even for students, and some are not without a special interest, as, for example, Dr Peabody's college customs fifty years ago, and President Eliot's treatment of the subject of scholarship, in which open scholarships are strongly opposed and the present system commended. Mr. Arthur Gilman gives the origin of the Annex, and Professor N. S. Shaler a short account of the Natural History Society, while Dr. D. A. Sargent replies...
...Monday's Herald had an enthusiastic letter from Yale on the prospects of her crew. The New York World of the same date also published a letter from its Yale correspondent, and the discrepancies between the statements of these two letters are as amusing as they are great. The special correspondent of the Herald declares that Yale has fourteen men in training for the crew, who practise constantly on the river and also in the gymnasium, there is much enthusiasm in the college, and a great and final effort will be made to outrow Harvard next June. The Yale correspondent...
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...many members of the Class of '80 have evinced a desire to know what arrangement has been made by the committee with Mr. James Notman, the Class Photographer, it would perhaps be well to enumerate a few clauses in the contract which are of special interest. Such clauses are as follows: Mr. Notman promises, "That every photograph of any member of said class shall be satisfactory to such member and to the Class Committee; and the satisfaction of every member shall be shown by his written certificate. Such certificate I promise to procure in every case when requested by said...