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...matter of fact, in view of the gratifying prevalence of sanity at this seat of learning, I suppose that nothing need really have been said at all. I am, however, unable to deny myself the pleasure of inquiring whether Mr. Sinclair's absence from the Harvard-Yale football games posterior to 1916 was intended as a protest against the insidious spread of "Romanism" among our players? I am-- Very Sincerely HUGH WHITNEY...
...oxygen, each of them an essential constituent of the body. All food should be well masticated, and the proportion of vegetable and animal foods eaten carefully considered. When a portion of food, or drink, saliva, or any other substance has been carried back past a certain point on the posterior part of the tongue, it is completely out of our power to resist swallowing. After leaving the mouth the food passes through the oesophagus to the stomach, which is a hollow muscular organ, and provided with a number of glands which produce the gastric juice. The muscles of the stomach...