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...concerning some causes of heart disease, and the evils caused by the use of tobacco, we clip from the N. Y. Tribune. "There is an increase of heart trouble, as there always would be in feverish and hurried lives. Many lives are intense enough to strain the whole human system, and increase and hurry the circulation and finally weaken it. A prominent English physician has written his experience in the matter of athletic exercises. Young men, boys who are not fully developed, strain their young muscles, hurry their breathing and circulation, whether by athletic games or rowing. Of those...
...growing use of tobacco is a serious evil. If used at all freely, it most certainly shortens life; and when taken by the young (and boys who are scarcely more than infants are now seen with cigarettes), it prevents full development and dwarfs and twists the whole nervous system. In this weakness the heart shares, and many a weak and trembling heart, which finally stops for very weariness, owes its weakness to this powerful and deadly nervine. It does not kill at sight, but, none the less, it does harm. A monkey will eat tobacco with impunity, but it does...
...next number of Our Continent, the new illustrated weekly, will contain an article on the "Elective System in Education" by President Eliot, which will be particularly timely just now. It will also have an article by D. G. Mitchell, on "Yale Forty Years Ago," and one by Prof. W. S. Tyler, on the "American Archaeological Institute...
...pages devoted to Harvard College, in the article on Cambridge, in the "History of Middlesex County," by S. A. Drake, we learn, among other things, that "in 1786 a college uniform was prescribed for the students with particulars of form and color and a system of distinctions for classes by means of 'frogs' on the cuffs and around the button-holes. The wearing of this uniform was compulsory, and the regulation continued in force, without modifications, for a number of years." Some of the college rules may be of interest to undergraduates. For example: "No freshman shall wear...
...Heavy Lot of Candidates - Yale Confident - Their Training System - The Finances of the Boat Club...