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Physiology and Hygiene. Special subject : "Respiration" (continued). Professor James. Sever...
...Walker's lecture this evening upon "American Manufactures and Agriculture" is upon a subject important to every one. Col. Walker has had the control of the census of 1880, which has been the most complete and comprehensive census ever taken of this country, and perhaps of any country in the world. He will probably present some facts and figures which have not yet appeared in the regular report. The lecture will be of especial interest to students of political economy...
...York divine recently delivered an address on the subject, "Why are Americans Dying Out?" He said that the death rate in America was alarming. In 1880 the average in New York was twenty-six in a thousand, and in 1881 thirty-one, and forty-eight cities in the United States exceeded that. Last year the deaths in New York exceeded the births by 12,494. He said there are six reasons for this deterioration: Americans eat and drink too much; they gamble in stocks and grain as well as at the gaming-table: they are a homeless people, nearly...
...Democratic editor and politician, and a nephew of Gen. Albert Sydney Johnson, the Confederate general who fell at Shiloh. His piece was entitled "The Lost Cause," and was an eloquent, highly rhetorical, and truly Southern defence of his people. Mr. Leonard is a New Yorker, and chose for his subject "William Lloyd Garrison," his oration being a review of the same question from a Northern stand-point and a vindication of the anti-slavery movement. Fifteen years after the bitter conflict has closed students from the opposing sections defend, on a New England college platform, each his own side...
...currently reported that very different regulations will be in force next year in regard to unmatriculated students. They will be required to attend prayers, recitations and examinations like undergraduates, and will be subject to all the general rules of the collegiate department. This will probably cause a stampede of special students to the law and scientific schools...