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...what was unheard of a few years ago, so it is possible that within a few years medicine may be able to stop the ravages of contagious diseases. The principle is not that of fighting the effects of disease, but rather that of making people strong and able to stand against it. This is done by a sort of contagion from people who are able to withstand all attacks of disease...
...chief reasons for carelessness and loss of interest in college work, is the policy of many of the professors in not giving out term and examination marks. It is not surprising that the inability to find out anything about one's stand, finally leads to indifference - not that we would imply that marks should ever be the chief ends of study, but still they are naturally regarded as the only authoritative records of the success of such study...
...basis of scholarship, but after a careful consideration of the question, the Faculty have decided to put a new plan in operation. By it the class is divided into three sections each of which is further subdivided into three divisions, the first of which contains the high-stand men, the other two being arranged on a purely alphabetical basis. While the method just adopted is somewhat of an experiment, and may in its turn be modified or discarded, the principle on which it is based - the recognition of scholarship to the fullest possible degree - would seem to point...
...committee have exerted themselves to out-do their predecessors and it is safe to predict that they will succeed. A commendable change is the initiative taken by the committee in checking the tendency toward extravagance. The marked reduction in the price of boxes and the lowering of other expenses stand as a precedent that will doubtless be followed in the future...
...large space in the northeast corner of the room is devoted to hydraulic machinery. A stand-pipe five feet in diameter and twenty-two feet in height extends above the level of the third floor. This is for experimenting with the flow of water through apertures of different sizes. Water will be pumped into the pipe from a cistern and will flow through an aperture, provided with nozzels of various sizes, into a tank. At the other end of the tank there will be a weir, and the flow of water over this can be measured. Then the water will...