Word: persons
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...synopsis of Dr. Farnham's lecture to night is as follows: Purposes of perspiration and sebaceous secretion. Care of the person; skin, feet, mouth, hair...
...subjects taught, but we also find that there are many important topics which it does not touch, for example, there is no instruction as to the duties of the consular service. Such instruction could best be given by one who had been in this service, and this person could most easily be found at Washington. There is another very important omission from the Columbia school curriculum - Comparative Commercial Law and Commercial Treaties...
...from an editorial: "There has of late been a good deal of discussion as to what should be compulsory, and what elective, in a college. As a result, some institutions have drawn the reins even tighter than before, while others, notably Harvard, will confer a degree upon almost any person who enrolls his name upon the college books, and dwells for four years within the sacred precincts of learning...
BENJAMIN CARPENTER, Secretary.TUG-OF-WAR. - Last year after the last tug-of-war at the winter meetings, the belt belonging to the '88 team was stolen from the gymnasium, presumably for a trophy. If the person who took it will return it to the gymnasium immediately, he will make a partial amend for his action. The belt is needed badly and if anyone in college has it, it should be returned at once...
...these walls are the capillary vessels into which the artery bringing the blood from the right side of the heart breaks up. So the blood flowing through them is exposed to the air on both sides. In early life the lungs have a rose color; but as a person grows older, a quantity of black looking matter is found scattered through them, and sometimes forming streaks in the surface. This is shown to be corbon, and has been inhaled from time to time. Inhaling certain kinds of dust will give pulmonary consumption...