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...cases of emergency one should keep cool. This is the first and most important rule. Poisons are of two kinds, acids or alkalis and narcotics. The value of an alkali as an antidote is very small, unless the dose can be immediately administered. Common cooking soda diluted in water is one of the best alkalis which can be used in case of poisoning by an acid. Lemon juice and vinegar are acids which are valuable as antidotes to alkalis. When an emetic is necessary, mustard diluted in water, or luke-warm water in large quantities, should be given. Milk, olive...
...Drops out at the full reach. Is slow on the beginning of the recover, and rushes his slide. Feathers under water...
...Doesn't work hard enough. Drops out at the full reach and slumps at the finish. Swings badly. Doesn't put his oar in soon enough, has a weak finish and feathers under water...
...Overseers held an adjourned meeting yesterday at 70 Water St., Hon. C. R. Codman presiding in the absence of President Hoar. The board voted to concur with the President and Fellows in appointing John Eliot Wolff, A. B., Instructor in Petrology for the year 1886-87, and Frank Lewis Van Cleef, A. B., Proctor for the current academic year; also to concur in electing William Gray, Henry J. Bigelow and Henry Lee Trustees of the Museum of Fine Arts for one year from June 1, 1886. The committee on the requisites for admission to the college, the present elective system...
Last evening Mr. Samuel Eliot read an essay on "The Relation of Forests to Rain-fall and Water Supply," before an appreciative audience in Sever 3. Mr. Eliot followed out a line of argument which was based upon the facts of observation rather than on a plausible theory. The lands of the Mediterranean were once called the gardens of the world, but to day these once fertile fields have become arid deserts. What has been the cause of the great climatic change, whereby these countries have lost their former power to produce large crops, and no longer are able...