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...fitting oneself for one's work in this world the first requisite to success is health. How important it is, then, that everyone should understand the working of the human body. How many of those who pass through college and without going to the medical school, and enter on their life work,- how many of them have any proper knowledge of physiology? None. Doubtless a few of the athletic men know something about hygiene as far as training is concerned; and I believe we have had a few things called emergency lectures in times past. But I think that every...
...communication from "Thorg" in yesterday's issue gave its readers to understand that the evils of Harvard life lying in the social root were ineradicable because of our proximity to a large city. This idea is unique, and, we believe, has never been advanced before; but it is not the relty of the statement, but the absuldity contained in it, which we wish to consider. To say that there is no remedy for the snobbishness manifest in so much of our life here is to admit more than any one ought who feels that he has life and vigor...
...magnitude of this beneficiary aid, I doubt if people generally understand, and I have accordingly takes pains to ascertain what was the amount given away this year. I find that to undergraduates alone it was $36,000; to members of the graduate department, $11,000; and to the professional schools, $6,000; making a total of assistance to students of the University of more than $53,000. Next year this enormous sum will be increased $13,000 by the munificent bequest of Mr. Price Greenleaf. Fully to estimate the position of the poor man at Harvard, we should take into...
...least one afternoon in the week, for matches if not more practice? We do not see why this could not be arranged without much interference with the base-ball men, who are really the only ones who use the upper part of Holmes field. We can well understand any outcry which may be raised against this unheard-of suggestion, but "fair play" ought to be one of Harvard's mottoes, and we are sure the cricket eleven will repay whatever small amout of care and attention it may please the mighty lords of the athletic association to bestow upon that...
...inspired much serious thought. Harvard certainly ought not to be behind other colleges in readiness to is to an earnest and scholarly Christian; a broad-minded man of to day, who comes in a peculiarly friendly capacity as a delegate from the universities of the old country. We understand that Professor Drummond's meetings, which are definitely announced only for Sunday and Monday, may perhaps be continued somewhat longer...