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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...second floor are the parlors, which are very handsomely fitted up, the dining rooms, which are largely patronized by the members, for the service and fare are excellent, and the price extremely moderate, and the billiard room, which, it is needless to say, is generally well filled. On the walls of the parlors are photographs of various celebrated members, with their records, and of the boats and boathouses belonging to the club...
...which depends upon, yet rules, all others. Affections of the nervous system are now and have been for some time on the increase. If I were asked to name that part of the human organism upon which the health and strength of an individual most depends, I should unhesitatingly say the nervous system. The reflex actions are those produced by some cause exciting a nerve which has its termination in the spinal cord and which does not extend into the brain. Walking, called automatic, is one of the reflex actions. Did all nerves terminate in the spinal cord and none...
...debilitating to the mind, and advocates a little more use of the brains. But these invectives are few and far between, for the growth of reading has become so universal that the habit of reading has become absolutely essential to a successful career. And it is safe to say that if this habit is not gained by college men during the years they spend at college they will never acquire it. "Read," said an old monk to Anselm in his boyhood; "read my son, for by reading only mayest thou attain success." And to this advice vigorously followed...
...means small. And when the real pleasure and profit that are derived from the vigorous walks across country are taken into account, courses in Natural History seem to possess an attraction that does not belong to the courses in other departments. It is enough for us to say that we believe that an afternoon spent in the experiences of a N. H. excursion, is profitably and pleasantly spent...
Again, as you say, let the arrangements be made at once; why should not a committee of students be appointed to draw up plans? or better still, let the Conference Committee take action in the matter. Surely this is a thing in which all professors and undergraduates should be alike interested...