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...evening. The lecturer said that consumption attacked some races more than others. The Irish and Germans were particularly subject to its unconquerable power. All people are aroused when cholera or small-pox is prevalent, and yet they take but few precautions against the greater evil of consumption. Alcohol, syphilis, want of pure air and good food are all productive of this terrible disease. Inherited consumption can often be cured by proper habits and regulations of life. When anyone is told to take fresh air for his consumptive troubles, he ought to keep out of doors all the time. We ought...
...years experience on the water; but eighty-nine should remember that if they are behind hand, they must work all the harder during the next two months to catch up, because they have to row the other class crews about the first of May, and they certainly do not want to bring up the rear on that any more than in the race with Columbia. Eighty-nine has plenty of strong, heavy men trying for the crew, and there is no reason why they should not make a good showing if they work hard; but it must be real honest...
...challenge to a tournament has been received by the freshman chess club from the '89 chess club of Columbia. The latter want two moves a week to be made by each side...
...papers, more especially the Monthly and the Advocate; but here the great trouble is that they treat not of topics which the ordinary man has any occasion to handle, so that they do not have the same effect which a much less pretentious piece of work would have. This want would be entirely satisfied by the bi-weekly themes now written, if only they were accessible. Since a plan has been thought out by the instructor in question of accomplishing this end to a limited extent, it is only just to the students that they should receive an explanation...
...does not want to be a physician enough to be so in spite of all hindrance, he ought not to be one at all. In medicine particularly a man is confined to his work, and he is unfortunate who cannot find his enjoyment in this work. While a physician should always have in mind the great object of the profession, - the doing of good to his fellowmen, - there is still to be regarded the aim of earning a livelihood. With this aim the world gets along better than if all men were distinguished philanthropists. Abroad, the profession is under supervision...