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...knowledge of hygienic laws and efficient sanitary regulations can effect wonders in checking disease. The sanitary system of England has decreased the death rate in the last ten years to a considerable extent. From 1871 80 the death rate decreased on an average of 1144 annually to every million inhabitants. In Massachusetts, for the last four years, the death rate has decreased. It is a startling fact, however, that deaths from brain diseases have increased 200 per cent. faster than the population...
...sixth year of existence, one-fourth die of respiratory troubles. Of those dying from fifteen to twenty-one, half fall victims to breathing troubles. Consumption only carries off nearly half of those who die between the ages of twenty-five and thirty-five. These computations are made from a million people who have lived in the vicinity of Liverpool. It is our duty to do all we can to prevent this terrible march of the respiratory diseases. In Massachusetts and in certain English towns, owing to more prudent and sagacious living, the death rate has been materially lowered; in some...
...been and is the law. To be faithful, not famous, is the purpose that will make our lives not in vain. Be faithful in the least things. Each grain of sand helps to keep back the ocean. The great heroes are few, only two or three in a million. Our task is to honor and help them. "To you, students of Harvard University, because I shall never see you again, I shall speak these words of hope, encouragement, inspiration. Can you sacrifice pleasure and success to duty. Have you faith? If you have it, however small, you can move mountains...
According to carefully prepared statistics, Yale College brings into New Haven about a million dollars a year...
...rate of the general investments by far the larger part of 5.17 per cent. This is a falling off in rate from the year before partly caused by delays in changing the investments. The total expenses or 1883-1884 in all departments were nearly three quarters of a million dollars, the exact figures being $746.261.02, but about $529, 000.00 of this was for buildings, the money having been given for that purpose. The decrease in the total invested property inclusive of the $52,900 spent on buildings, was $78,396.11. This was much more than counterbalanced by the numerous gifts...