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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...latest methods of gymnastic training claim for themselves these four points of excellence:-Perfect adaptability to individual need, pleasant exercise, the maximum of reward for the minimum of time, and effects plainly to be measured, seen, and felt. Dr. Sargent, of Cambridge, is the most successful among the new trainers, and the results are certainly remarkable. Given the necessary apparatus and the skilled teacher, there seems to be constant gain in both interest and vigor...
...members of freshman Minimum Physics are requested to supply themselves with copies of the fourth part of Deschanel's Physics...
Among the recent improvements that have been made by Dr. Sargent in gymnasium apparatus is a new arrangement of pulley-weights, which tends to reduce the friction to a minimum, and thereby renders work on them easier and more agreeable. This result is accomplished by substituting rolled shafting, similar to that used in mills, in place of the plain iron rods now in use in the old machines; by changing the bearings so that the weight box will run exactly parallel to the bars, and thus prevent lateral pressure, and by increasing the diameter of the pivot...
...went on to describe the workings and various departments of the laboratory of the practical physiologist. The methods by which pain in their experiments was reduced to the minimum was set forth, also the gains made to medical science. Our knowledge of the circulation of the blood and many other of the foundation stones of medical learning are due to the practice of vivisection. It is humanitarian, for by the sacrifice of the lower animals almost without pain the greatest benefits for the human race are obtained...
...examination in Freshman Greek will be held in the following rooms: Prof. Croswell's sections: Adv. 1. in Mass. 3; i.-iv. in Mass 1. Prof. Dyer's sections: Adv. II., and vi. in Sever 37. Minimum sections in U. E. R. Conditioned men go to Sever...