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Dates: during 1880-1889
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This work if followed in all its details might make a good memory, and undoubtedly would benefit anyone, but such rules as, "eat carefully," "drink carefully," etc., are not always obeyed, even though they have been dictated to the world by many writers for years, and the inevitable result of carelessness in eating and drinking shown. Such rules for improving the memory are then useless we think. Yet the book has many valuable suggestions in it, anyone of which would do one good. A chapter on the use of Narcotics is an example. Towards the end of the book...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOOKS. | 1/11/1887 | See Source »

Yale will probably put a "veteran" crew upon the water this spring. The result of the race with Harvard will go a great way toward determining the disputed question of the comparative merits of "veteran" and so-called "raw" crews...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 1/11/1887 | See Source »

...Seventh Regiment games this winter. The only way the loss of the other prize winners can be made good is by as many men as possible turning out and working in the gymnasium. The team of last year worked steadily during the winter months, and as a result it was in the best possible physical condition at the time of the races...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: H. A. A. | 1/11/1887 | See Source »

...case of an institution which is growing as rapidly as ours. In fact, Harvard is the only college in New England which has attained any great increase in size during the past ten years. Sometimes, although not often, there is a deficit for one year, as the result of some unusual outlay...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Address by President Eliot before the Harvard Finance Club. | 1/6/1887 | See Source »

...there has never been at Yale, so far as we know, any appeal from a body of students for the abolition of "compulsory worship." It has generally been assumed that nothing could be accomplished by making such an appeal. The recent removal of restrictions at Harvard, as the result of repeated petitions signed by four fifths of the undergraduates, has served, however, to direct anew the attention of students in New Haven to the compulsory system prevailing at Yale and to show them what may be done by continued agitation. Yale students who are professing Christians, recently in the college...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Note and Comment. | 1/4/1887 | See Source »

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