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...large response to this call. Every man in the class who plays base ball at all should attend the meeting and learn just what will be expected of all candidates. It is necessary that all who intend to try for the nine be known and that they begin some sort of training at once which will prepare them for the work of the spring. The freshmen should remember that the defeat of their class eleven last fall still lingers in the memory of the college. The class has yet to win its victories in athletics, and this thought should...
...body cannot perform work for a long continued period without food of some sort to replace the loss of substance, in membranes, tissues, etc. And as the body is at all times wasting and weakening, the matter of food supply becomes imperative. Furthermore to be assimilated into the body, the food has to undergo a great chemical change. The observation of the manner in which this change is brought about, has been, of necessity, a matter of much uncertainty, although at present we are pretty well informed as to this change...
...Pfeiffer then described rather hurriedly the digestive organs, to enable him to speak of the ancient ideas of digestion. Starting with the idea of its being a sort of putrefaction, ideas progressed through various stages until, by ingenious experiments, it was found that the object of the stomach was to dissolve the food. In the next lecture Dr. Pfeiffer proposes to treat of the processes of digestive fermentation...
...point in connection with this is that the increase in the number of graduates of other colleges who have entered these higher schools has been more than proportional to the growth of the schools, rapid as that has been. This means that the character of these schools and the sort of work they are doing is being more widely recognized and valued. Harvard determines the standards...
...nine. Such a state of affairs called for action, and a committee of five was appointed by the Faculty to investigate athletics. This committee recommended the formation of a permanent committee of three. The original members were Professors White and Norton, and Dr. Sargent. This committee acted as a sort of buffer between the Faculty and the students, and from the first had most friendly relations with the latter. After three years the committee recommended changes in its constitution, of which the chief was the addition of two undergraduate members. These changes were adopted, and from the first the undergraduate...