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...ordinary easy breathing most of the work is done by the action of the diaphragm, a large muscle which separates the abdomen from the chest. It is fastened to the ribs and the back bone and it arches upward; when it contracts it flattens, and by pulling on the base of the chest, makes it larger. This enlargement of the chest is also performed by little muscles between intercostals. They raise the ribs from their oblique position. In ordinary healthy respiration the current of air passes in and out of the lungs through the nose, not through the mouth...
President McCosh said at the beginning of his address, that he would not "compel students to attend religious services." Why then did he afterwards regret that "upward of eight hundred students at Harvard have asked that they be not required to attend prayers?" We cannot see the distinction between "compelling students to attend religious services" and their being "required to attend prayers," that Dr. McCosh seems anxious to make. Either there is some important distinction, or Princeton's president has been grossly illogical...
...short of being mirabile dictu. By magic, like the transformations in a fairy-tale, a few printed sheets, worth (with an allowance for a very respectable profit). about ten, fifteen, or even twenty-five cents, expand in value, or rather in price, to fifty cents, seventy-five cents, and upward. Of course the only cause of this expansion is a very natural one, namely, the heat of the seller's eagerness after the almighty dollar. Heat expands, and cold contracts; so we learned in freshman Physics. In what way are we to send a good cold draught across these...
...seen from these figures, are as heavy as the average freshman crew, among them are several very strong men. As a general criticism, the attention of the crew may be called to the necessity of keeping exact time, of keeping the arms straight until the upward swing is finished. Number one stops at end of shoot, and then rushes down; number two might shorten his swing forward; number three jerks his hands towards his knees when starting to swing up; number four does not let the arm and body movements follow each other continuously; number five uses his shoulder; number...
...hardly necessary to mention the minor directions; they are of less consequence, and the reasons for them are obvious. The eyes should be fixed on the neck of the man in front; the wrist near the machine should be held slightly curved upward, so as to shorten the corresponding arm; the elbows should be held close to the side, when the arms are bent; the swing forward should be extended until the hands are above the toes, (this distance, however, varies somewhat with individuals); the body should always swing directly over the keel of the boat, never swerving to either...