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...necessarily at the same time. Second, the pattern of veins in the surface of the breasts stands out more clearly, and this may extend to the adjoining chest wall. The breasts gradually increase in size as a result of the filling-up of blood vessels. In addition, the labia minora (the vulva's inner folds) turn bright pink, a process that Dr. Masters compares biologically with changes in female monkeys' exposed "sex skin." A lubricant appears in the vagina. As excitement proceeds to the next phase, the pigmented rings around the nipples (areolae) become engorged and impinge upon...
During the past several years, a number of county and State societies have elected "executive secretaries" for long tenure, to steer the societies through troublous times. Before leaving office last December, the Comitia Minora, the board of directors of the New York County Society, appointed as pilot Dr. Benjamin Wallace Hamilton, a veteran factotum...
...entrance requirements, too, differ entirely from the ones now in use. In 1820 the prospective student had to be: "Well versed in the grammar of the English, Latin and Greek languages; in 'Virgil', Cicero's 'Select Orations', 'Salust', 'The Greek Testament', Dalzel's 'Collectanea Graeca Minora', 'Latin and Greek Prosody', 'Arithmetick', and 'Ancient and Modern Geography...
About this time (1803) the authorities raised the standard of admission, and required examinations in Dalzel's "Collectanea Graeca Minora," the Greek Testament, Virgil, Sallust and Cicero, with a knowledge of Greek and Latin grammars. The candidates had to be well versed in geography and arithmetic...