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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...subject, said Dr. Walcott, is so large that many deficiencies in treatment are inevitable. In the first place, how can we tell what the health of a given body of men may be? Only, strangely enough, by the death rate. Fifty years ago in England, competent officers were appointed in every parish to collect its vital statistics, and now the government publishes yearly a volume of about nine hundred pages, so accurately compiled that all inferences about the health of the modern world are based upon it. In Massachusetts the same system has been adopted and an excellent yearly report...
...more conflicting; and beer is still given in the military schools, but there is little doubt that its effect is injurious rather than other wise. Before middle life, at any rate, it should be merely medicine and taken in extreme moderation. In regard to ventilation it may be said that certain recitation rooms in Harvard are very poorly ventilated, worse than the worst in Tewksbury. The Kidder Technology building was erected with a special view to good ventilation, and the instructors feel certain that the work done in it is much better than that done in the old building...
Professor Trowbridge by invitation of the Harvard Electrical club delivered an interesting lecture last night in the Jefferson Physical Laboratory on the nature of electricity. He wished to call attention, the lecturer said, to a few experiments which have been made in German laboratories during the last two years with a view to illustrating a great electrical principle. The two great generalizations of the last two hundred years, the laws of gravitation and of the conservation of energy, have both originated in England. In fact all great advances in the domain of Physics have been made by Anglo-Saxons...
...Andrews of Brown University conducted the service in Appleton Chapel yesterday evening He took as the text for his address Psalm 107, 8th verse, "Oh that men would praise the Lord for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men." It seem unnatural the preacher said, that men should need to be exhorted to gratitude to God. Yet many devotedly pious people, while they feel the duty of gratitude, are certainly not spontaneously grateful. This is largely due to a wrong method of looking at puzzling questions of belief. Dr. Andrews then considered some of these...
There are, I think, but two just criticisms of their position. It may be said that the charges against Princeton are not proved. The answer is that where there is so much smoke there must be some fire. Moreover, Harvard's position does not rest on the truth of the charges; Harvard simply washes her hand of those whose honesty is even questioned. The second criticism is that it would have been much better to have waited until the Princeton match and victory were old and the undergraduates' blood had had a chance to cool. I have already said that...