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...better to force men to learn something which, like hygiene, is of practical value, rather than to teach them to write "See the cat. The cat is yellow," in French or German? We believe it is, and in our opinion Physiology I should be prescribed for Freshmen...
...question. The greatest problem of all to be solved was that of sanitation, the problem that the French never solved. Through the wonderful work accomplished by Colonel Goethals, the death-rate, which in 1906 was 41 per thousand laborers, was reduced in 1908 to 13 per thousand. Yellow fever and small-pox, which had previously carried off thousands of men, were completed wiped out. The money expended in bringing about this reform will be $20,000,000 before the canal is finished, but it is estimated that already over 15,000 lives have been saved because of improved sanitary conditions...
...statement printed this morning concerning the extreme unpleasantness of the dust near the Stadium is only too true. There can be no question about the discomfort and unhealthfulness of feeling one's way through the yellow clouds of powdered road-bed; and we wonder why, when it is a source of annoyance to so many, this unsanitary condition is allowed to continue...
...effective because the one character lacks the terse expression that would make his story live. The descriptions--not by the old prospector--are overdrawn. The reader balks a little at the "clear scarlet sky" as other readers protested at Coleridge's sky with its "peculiar tint of yellow green." H. K. Moderwell's "By Night" has a vigor that makes one wish for more. "The Last Edition," by Wm. C. Green is an admirably told incident of the conflict between principle and financial need, principle winning less blatantly than is usual. "College Kodaks" are true but unpleasant, therefore belying...
...must be a pleasure to the Freshman whose first days in College have been all concerned with registrations, consultations, pink cards, yellow cards and the like, to see a Harvard tome (be it ever so slender) which bears on its cover so cheering a motto...