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...Tank Kee is lecturing on China at various colleges. No Tank...
Professors and students representing various opinions and habits have been consulted, and all believe that a total abstinence society, thus free from bigotry, pledges and importunity, and based upon common-sense, self-respect and gentlemanliness, will be respected by every student, whatever his own opinions or habits may be. We dare, therefore, to hope for the support of many, and the respect...
...Sargent began his lecture yesterday by stating that the principal elements that sustain life are carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen, and that various kinds of food possessed these qualities in different degrees. The world's greatest scientists have devoted themselves to classifying foods according to their chemical compounds and effects on the human body. But no table of nutritives can be accurate in its application, as the nervous and muscular tissues are not the same...
Much complaint has been made recently concerning the loss of various articles in the gymnasium. It seems that the moment anything is found it is thrown among the unclaimed articles down stairs, where any one can help himself to what he pleases. In this way an article lost by one man in the morning may be appropriated by another in the afternoon. This unnecessary disappearance of property might be remedied, we think, if a list of the articles lost were posted on the gymnasium bulletin and the articles themselves were not consigned to the "olla podrida" of shoes, slippers, jerseys...
...choice, if the election rested with us, none will be disposed to grumble at the actual choice, provided that some one reasonably popular and efficient be selected. It would be mere presumption to claim that the students are at all competent to make any affirmative choice from among the various candidates for the position, but it is certainly fair for them to demand that no one, who by general agreement is believed to be unsuited for the place, and whose unpopularity would impair the efficiency of his administration, should be chosen to an office so closely connected with the welfare...