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...Alexis St. Martin, who was the means of furnishing most of our knowledge of the functions of the stomach, was under observation for thirty-two years. On stimulation of the stomach by any means the gastric fluids begin to flow. It is said that drinking large quantities of water impedes digestion by diluting this gastric juice. Violent muscular exertion before or after eating has the same effect. Live tissue can be digested, and after death the stomach sometimes digests itself. The pancreatic juice and the bile are poured into the small intestine. The amount of bile secreated in twenty-four...
Board of Overseers. Stated meeting at No. 70 Water St., Boston...
...WEDNESDAY.Board of Overseers. Stated meeting at No. 70 Water St., Boston...
...Columbia next year at New London, and they can only do that by steady, hard work and strict attention to details. The very first thing a crew has to learn is to keep time. Unless they do this there is no use in their ever going out on the water, for they would be beaten badly by a much inferior crew which did keep perfect time. And eighty-nine can learn this only by always keeping the question of time strictly before them in every thing they do collectively...
...crews of last year beat Columbia badly, but they only did it after a year's work of the hardest kind, and not by loafing. As it is Columbia will probably have learned something from her defeat last year, and will put a faster crew than ever on the water, so that the freshmen have got to brace more than usual if they wish to win. If eighty-nine wants an example to follow, let her take last year's University crew, a crew which probably worked harder and accomplished more than any crew Harvard has ever...