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...ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, I've always heard. That's why I wouldn't ordinarily have gone to the Hygiene Building when I woke up one morning shaking with fever. But I knew I was too sick to study for my hour exam the next day, so I thought I'd better...
...when a newsboy went through the ward calling out in a shrill voice, and later when supper came. I didn't eat anything, but I drank a lot of water. I slept on and off into the night, and I felt rotten. Finally, I slept soundly, and when I woke up in the morning I felt a little better, but I still had a sore throat and a headache...
Meanwhile, other British beasts were reverting to type. "A blue tit," wrote a correspondent to the letters column of the Times of London, "flew in at my window this morning, woke me up by thumping a Balzac novel, and proceeded to reconnoitre...
...sleeping compartment of the Barcelona-Bilbao express one night last week, New York's Congressman Eugene J. Keogh, Democrat, made a serious mistake. He hung them near the open window. In the next compartment, Congressman James P. Richards, Democrat, of South Carolina, undressed and did likewise. When they woke up, both pairs of pants were gone...
...rest of their story sounds like a Pearl White thriller. When the group woke up in the morning they were covered with three inches of snow, and spent most of the day edging down the face. Then they started on the road back home--a seven-mile ice field called the Illecilliwaet Neve--through a blinding snowstorm and with only two cans of Spam and a handful of prunes for food. They were on it for 28 hours, and just had enough strength to effect rescue when one of the students fell twenty feet into a crevasse...