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Dates: during 1870-1879
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ANOTHER suggestion has been made which seems to us to offer an exellent solution of the difficulty, and that, too, without any increase in the running expenses. It is proposed to have two separate hours for each meal, and thus enable each table and each seat to be used twice over, if necessary. The hall will thus accommodate thirteen hundred persons, instead of six hundred and fifty, and so far from being more crowded than at present, will be much less so, as the number present at any one time will be much diminished. This plan is adopted at many...
...DUDLEY A. SARGENT of New York has been appointed full Professor of Hygiene, with a seat in the Faculty...
...appointment of that gentleman. Dr. Sargent is a graduate of Bowdoin and of the Yale Medical School, and is widely known for his success in curing disease by "gymnastic treatment." He is an accomplished gymnast, and will give individual instruction and advice in the Gymnasium. He has a seat in the Faculty, and will have full charge of his department. Under Dr. Sargent's instruction the utmost will be made of the advantages which the new Gymnasium affords. Men will not refrain from training through fear of physical injury, nor will the more ambitious be liable to injure themselves...
...more cautious observer, however, the shadow of a light but fiendish smile seemed to lurk beneath this fair exterior. As he swung gracefully on to an outward-bound car, several Cambridgians and "Cambridgets" bestowed curious glances on him. He dropped into the only vacant seat beside a Freshman, whose character has always been that of a truthful...
...time I watched the different types of beauty, - but so much beauty is intoxicating. The brilliant crowd began to oppress me, and I walked over to my room. It was still occupied by the guests of the man who had borrowed it. I sat down on the window-seat outside, and could hear the conversation within...