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This year's Princeton catalogue has just been issued and gives the total number of students...
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...chest, hips, thighs and arms, in breadth of shoulders and in the increased strength of all parts of the body, while the girth of the neck, waist and calves, the depth of chest and abdomen, the breadth of neck, waist and hips seem to respond more slowly. The total height is slightly increased, through increase in length of the lower extremities, but the sitting height and girth of head, knees, instep, waist and the length of upper arm and foot are at first hardly altered. In the athletic class, the excess in development of the right arm tends to establish...
...college may be inferred from a single illustration taken from the records at Harvard University. In the year 1880, seven hundred and seventy-six men were physically examined. The strongest man out of this number showed in strength of lungs, back, legs, chest and arms, a grand total of 675.2. At the close of the summer term of the present year, the highest strength test recorded was 1272.8 and there were over two hundred men in college whose total strength test surpassed the highest test of 1880. This general gymnasium work is, therefore, reducing the one-sided development once...
...result of the election of directors of Harvard Dining Association is as follows: From '90.- B. F. Tilton received 57, F. C. Cobb, 31; A. Morton, 23; scattering, 1. Total. 112. Mr. Tilton elected. From '91.- R. B. Hale received 76 votes, H. Tallant, 70; H. Rich, 30; J. Duff, 11; scattering, 7. Total. 203. Messrs. Hale and Tallant are elected...