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...lacrosse game forced the University and Freshman track squads to leave the cinders within the Stadium yesterday for the new track in the northwest part of Soldiers Field, Coach Bingham did not relax from the strenuous program which he has outlined for the week, and drilled his men with arduous starts and informal races. Coach Tolbert did not train the Freshmen quite as strenuously, inasmuch as they will hold a series of time trials and competitions this afternoon which will play an important part in determining the personnel of the squad which will go to Andover Saturday for the first...
...editorial column of the "Daily Princetonian" has waxed wroth over books and magazine articles which represent Princeton as a cross between a first-rate country club and a sanitarium where one may rest up after arduous week-ends. The writer of the editorial admits that there may be a few individuals who think of their alma mater in these terms; but the difficulty comes from judging the mass by the few--"unrepresentative observation" as logicians call it. Harvard has had a similar experience along a different line. A certain class of outsiders read in the papers of millionaires' sons here...
...object of the expedition will be to study the changes in the heart, circulation, respiration, and chemical composition of the blood which enable the residents of Cerro de Pasco to live there in comfort and to arduous work in the copper-mines, at an altitude in which most people would be able to do comparatively little on account of the rarity of the air. Scientists have frequently spent a few days or weeks at great heights to test the effect of the altitude on themselves, but the studies made on the natives of Cerro de Pasco will be the first...
There are now, or soon will be, in the Borough of Manhattan, 50 Troops of Boy Scouts without leaders. University men are wanted as Scoutmasters for these boys. The service is neither difficult nor arduous. But it is of the highest possible importance to the city. College men have had opportunities denied to others. They owe something to the community. As Scoutmasters they are asked to give not money but a little of themselves. They can get nearer to the coming American and influence him more directly in this way than in any other. And in so doing they will...
...first two years; but in the clinical years the amount of subject matter to be recognized becomes less,--the work with patients has its fascinations and the studies of the laboratory years, involving laboratory technic, have their easily seen application and are on this account less arduous. The lecture persists in the third year in the afternoons,--the mornings are filled with hospital duties, examining patients,--but in the fourth year the lectures practically cease and the student finds himself assigned for varying periods of two to eight weeks to hospitals. This is the so-called "clinical clerk" system, comparatively...