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Under the heading "Food and Drink," we find that "among the articles which are both nutritious and easily digested are milk, soft boiled eggs, tripe, oysters (raw, stewed or roasted, not fried), rare beef, meat broths and soups." Then follow various remarks on the cost of food together with directions and advice as to the proper modes of preparing the raw material for eating. Though these remarks are particularly intended for those students who board themselves, there are many of them which are worthy the perusal of many a housekeeper or cook, while even the authorities of Memorial Hall might...
...during the past year was forty-one, of whom thirty were from Massachusetts. Of these 23 studied Greek, 22 Latin, 15 English, 14 German, 11 Mathematics, 9 History, 8 Physics, 5 Philosophy, 5 Botany, 4 French and 4 Astronomy. The students were divided among twenty-seven courses in the various subjects...
...proportion of a class were entirely incapable of supporting themselves in the water. We do not think it strange at all. This "peculiarity" is not at all confined to West Point students. We venture to say that if statistics were taken in regard to the students in the various colleges in the country, the result would call forth a flood of articles from the daily press upon the alarming proportion of non-swimmers and upon the desirability of giving some instruction in this useful accomplishment. The question has been discussed time and again here at Harvard. At regular intervals...
...Agassiz Association held a meeting of their various chapters last week, in Association Hall, Philadelphia. The association consists of 525 chapters, distributed over the United States, with a membership of 5970. The association is devoted to the study of natural history...
...Arabic, arithmetic, and French; in the secondary or preparatory schools Arabic, Turkish, French, and English, pure mathematics, drawing, history, and geography. The special schools are devoted respectively to the subjects of law, medicine, and art, engineering, etc. Besides there are government schools for the blind, those supported by the various Christian communities, both native and European, and the almost infinite number of "Free schools" attached to the public fountains and maintained by the same charitable foundation as the fountain. Every visitor to Cairo is familiar with these. Passing a fountain at almost any time of the day, he will...