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...children. Five were in a good state of preservation, the others in various stages of decay. In one grave the bones were so nearly gone as to preserve only the outline in coarse ashes. In another the skull alone remained, in the jaws of which were the well polished teeth. The skeletons were those of men averaging 5 feet 2 inches in height, the tallest being 6 feet 2 inches. The burials were from three to five feet below the surface. The skeletons rested upon hard clay. Around them had been rudely set up flat river stones, then earth...
...lately we, as a body of students, have not had the least idea of what it means. The idea conveyed by this term is not that we should sit down and spend our time in idle gossip over our "prospects"; it does not mean that we should grind our teeth and declare ourselves beaten from the start; nor does it mean that we should smile blandly because we feel sure of a victory before the teams have met. It means that we should go to work and stay at work and not leave a stone unturned up to the moment...
...Harrison of the Veterinary School has completed some interesting experiments of a new device for controlling refractory horses. The trials were made upon a vicious animal which had the habit of taking the bit in his teeth and bolting. The experimenter contrived to connect the bit by two small wires along the reins with a small electric battery which he carried in the buggy. The apparatus was so arranged that the driver could give the horse a shock of greater or less intnsity without injury. The trial was an entire success. The horse after two or three shocks became docile...
Gill, the famous foot-ball player of Yale, had two of his front teeth knocked out in the game with Pennsylvania about three weeks ago. He replaced the teeth and held them in position is best he could with his tongue until the game was finished, and then sought the nearest dentist, who fastened them in with silk cord, The cord has since be end, and. strange to say, the teeth are firm as ever...
...PEASE, Captain.DR. SLADE will read a paper on "The genesis of the Teeth in the true Ungulates," before the Zoological Club, tonight. The doors of the Museum will be open from 7.15 till...