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Dates: during 1880-1889
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With regard to the effects on the heart of exercise, when it is taken to preserve or improve the health, or even in the case of those who carry it beyond this point, though still within the bounds of amateur sport, it is not easy to make a decided statement...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dr. Farnham's Lecture. | 2/11/1886 | See Source »

It is hardly too early to call attention to and to make an effort to reform an abuse which has been on the increase for years. Each class day witnesses a steady growth in the inflow of the objectionable element who crowd our yard after evening. If the line could...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/9/1886 | See Source »

President McCosh, of Princeton, in reply: "There is an increasing tendency to leave out religion in the teaching of our colleges, and as a consequence the character of the highly educated men who graduate from our colleges and erect such a powerful influence on the community is becoming irreligious. It...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Religion in Colleges. | 2/5/1886 | See Source »

One reason why magazines are so popular is that everybody reads them at the same time. No matter in what part of the country one finds himself, he is never at a loss for polite conversation if he has read the latest magazines. And it need not be empty talk...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Magazines at Harvard. | 2/4/1886 | See Source »

Much as national characteristics enter into the philosophic thought of a country, yet it seems to be a new idea, and one must say a remarkable one, to thus absolutely lay down the philosophy which should be the guide of an American. Simply because a man is an American he...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: An American Philosophy. | 2/3/1886 | See Source »

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