Word: rates
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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This plan is already, with some notifications, in use at the German universities, though there theses are required not oftener than twice a year; but this seems unadvisable at Harvard, because the men in the two lower classes at any rate have not sufficient command over the English language, nor training in the use thereof, to enable them to produce a finished piece of work of the requisite length. Besides, if each theses were required only twice a year, there would be altogether too much of what is now the customary thing, namely, everything being left to the last minute...
...external muscles may be in a man who is soft, or out of condition, or one in which the fibres of the muscle itself have been broken down and replaced by fat; this is the true fatty degeneration. "Alcohol is, if not the most powerful, at any rate the most frequent cause of fatty degeneration" of the heart. The walls of the heart may become so weak as to give way, and thus a nepture of the heart is produced. For your peace of mind, I will say that this is almost always a disease of advanced life...
...respiration, and assimilation of the food. He said he accepted Lord Palnerston's saying as good, - "That the best care for the inside of a man was the outside of a horse." He further said that the mind was greatly refreshed when the body was moving at a rapid rate through the air as riding, driving, sailing or coasting. Boxing he considered good for digestion...
...desires to purchase the college hymn book at the reduced rate, should fail to subscribe at the office of the treasurer. - Yale News. Quid? Marquis of Queensberry rules...
...banks of the Ganges. The reasons why the Jew is so much healthier than his Christian brother, as statistics prove, is because he lives much more soberly, drinks less, marries, earlier, and takes, better care of the young and aged. In London, within the last two centuries, the death rate has fallen from 80 per thousand to 23. At the age of 15 the rate of mortality is lowest. From 25 to 70 the greatest number of deaths occur from violence, accident, or suicide. The subjects which should interest us most are in regard to what we eat, drink...