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...Sever 11 to hear the first lecture of the course on "Health and Strength." Judging from the first the course will be of great interest and value to all. The doctor spoke in part, as follows: "My plan is, after two or three preliminary lectures, to take up the various systems of the body in order. We shall then be able to consider some of the causes which produce disease, and the means by which we may prevent the action of some of these causes. The constitution a person inherits will play a large part in determining what degree...
...hint as to the character meant. The grave senior, unused to aught but dignity, unbent his brow into a smile and shouted and sang at intervals between puffs at his cigar. The junior was elate and jocund, and the sophomores and freshmen copied the example thus set them. Various parties, curiously enough of four each, seized and held possession of the smoking compartments and played whist; the Glee Club practised its songs, numbers of Pierian men joining and giving an impromptu character to the rehearsal; and an odor of smoke fought with the atmosphere for supremacy - and won. About thirty...
...regard to these series of the "Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science," it is worthy of note that the writers of the various studies are by no means all Johns Hopkins men. Harvard and other colleges have been well represented. Indeed the writer of this new work, "American Constitutions," is a Harvard graduate of the class of 1849. And yet Johns Hopkins is getting all the "national honor" that comes from the publications; and of course she deserves it, as long as she is the only institution that offers such advantages to writers. It is, however...
...have two or three representatives each in the House of Commons, and party spirit runs high in the universities. According to the Oxford Review, which speaks mainly on the subject, the two members of the university will surely be Conservative. Nevertheless, a rather amusing fight is going on. The various debating societies are now offering resolutions in support of Lord Salisbury's ministry, and the undergraduate politicians are exercising their oratorical powers in mimic Parliamentary contests. One man, who signs himself "Conservative," writes in the Review a vigorous appeal to all holders of sound political opinions to try to influence...
...Brewer; from '87, F. S, Coolidge, G. P. Furber, E. H. Rogers; from '88, R. H. Fuller, W. Barnes, Jr., L. McK. Garrison; and from '89, P. D. Trafford, G. T. Keyes, B, C. Weld, W. G. Rantoul, E. W. Grew. The following gentlemen were unable to appear for various reasons; from '86, J. H. Huddleston, A. D. Claflin, A. H. Vogel; from '87, G. A. Morrison, E. J. Weeks, F. E. E. Hamilton; from '88, M. H. Clyde, W. D. Bancroft, G. A. Carpenter; from '89, W. S. Scott. Mr. Roberts was elected president of the meeting...