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Dates: during 1880-1889
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There are now about forty men in training. Of this number probably one half will "hang-on" till the time of the games. A person who knows whereof he speaks says that the most promising candidates for honors are: C. H. Sherrill, Jr., '89, and A. Leeds, '87, who are doing the best work at the 100 yards dash. Both men have covered the distance in 10 1-2 seconds, and there are strong hopes that Sherrill will manage to get this down a fifth of a second or so. His chances would be much better if he could improve...
...does not extend into the brain. Walking, called automatic, is one of the reflex actions. Did all nerves terminate in the spinal cord and none of them enter the brain, there could be no such thing as sensation, and parts of the body might be badly injured without the person knowing it. The law of eccentric projection is that by which we refer sensation to the end of the nerve on which it is received, instead of at the point of contact with exciting cause. Neuralgia is caused by anything that worries or troubles a person's mind. Malaria...
This disease is hereditary. Among 83 cases of neuralgia Abernethy found that nearly all had their start in inherited nervous disease. A draught of cold air is enough to cause neuralgia in a predisposed person. Among the articles that produce degeneration of the nerve tissues, alcohol stands prominent. The hard drinker, though young in years, in regard to his tissues...
...alarm bells. Moreover, he does not allow his training to stop at this point, he rushes headlong to the actual scene of the conflagration, and there studies carefully and intelligently the methods employed in saving life and property, not knowing how soon he may be called upon in person to put them into operation. But, - and in all seriousness, - the undergraduates know perfectly well that there is constant danger of a terrible calamity by the burning of some of our tinderbox dormitories, and the fact that such a disaster is looked forward to by them was proved rather conclusively...
...would have gone. I think I never saw so great a strife of elements before, it is supposed the Fire began in the Beam under the hearth of the Library, the Gov'r. and a great number of the Court assisted in extinguishing the Fire, it being vacation no person in the college, the Fire was past stopping Harvard before it was perceived. I hope the K - g will give something to repair the loss as he has never done anything for this College yet, . . . . . . and now partly to soften your grief and alleviate your sorrow, Ile tell...