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...English Antarctic explorer, spoke before an enthusiastic audience in the Living Room of the Union yesterday afternoon and described one of the arduous experiences of his expedition. He said that on the party's return north, their provisions became exhausted and for two months they were compelled to subsist on a diet of dead pony. On the march they suffered terribly from dysentery and each man lost in weight an average of from 30 to 40 pounds...
...fact of accent is related to the pulse beat, to whose rate it in some cases approximates, and that of periods to the breathing, whose interval approximates to that of a four-barperiod. The equalities that subsist between successive larger periods have also been referred to accompanying symmetrical movements of dancing...
...welfare of the whole university. An annual cry goes up from the office of the Co-operative Society over the paucity of members and therefore of money. Last year its echo was heard throughout the year. This year cry and echo are blended. No society, however meritorious, can subsist upon itself. The Co-operative Society is no exception. The great benefits of the society are so well recognized that it is a matter of universal surprise that its members are not more numerous. Only four hundred and fifty men have signed. A thousand, at least, should have done...
...more frequent opportunity of such a sort were taken by members of the faculty to explain and discuss with their classes, and especially with the freshman classes, the status and relations of the various courses and methods of work, a far more cordial and franker feeling would come to subsist between instructors and pupils, and a clearer notion of what is expected of them would remain with the latter. Prof. White's advice and ideas will certainly be carefully considered by his hearers. He began by intimating that the spirit of apathy and procrastination which the freedom of the lecture...