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...Various statements that have been made from time to time concerning the effect of success or failure in athletic sports on the resort to colleges have induced President Eliot to prepare tables of statistics giving the actual results, in terms of victory and defeat, of athletic contests between Harvard and Yale and between Yale and Princeton in each of the last ten years, and the registration of students in the subsequent academic years corresponding therewith. In commenting on the tables. President Eliot says: "One might suppose that the most immediate effect of victory or defeat in athletic sports would appear...
...James Russell Lowell: A Biography," by Horace E. Scudder, is the latest and most complete of the biographies of Mr. Lowell. It is written with a just appreciation of his life from the various points of view of author, editor, professor and diplomatic ambassador. Recognizing the excellence of Professor Norton's "Letters of James Russell Lowell," the author, as he says in his preface, has deemed it advisable "not so much to supplement the 'Letters' with other letters, as to complement those volumes with a more formal biography." Keeping this aim in view, the author has quoted from letters only...
...official report of illness in the University for the year 1900-1901, prepared by Doctor M. H. Bailey, shows a total of 4603, cases, which is an increase of about 200 over last year. In addition to the usual tabulation of cases, statistics have been prepared for the various departments, showing the proportion of men signing off to the total number of men in the departments. In the College this percentage for the Freshman class was 175, for the Sophomores 210, for the Juniors 197, and for the Seniors 173. In the Scientific School the percentage for the Freshman...
...following table gives the number of cases of the various diseases, arranged by months. Sept. Oct. Nov. Dec. Jan. Feb. Mar. Apr. May June Total Appendicitis, 4 4 5 1 4 3 5 6 1 33 Chicken-pox, 4 1 1 6 Colds, 1 136 190 165 277 168 248 115 91 5 1396 Constipation, 4 8 1 1 14 Diarhoea, 47 39 26 20 7 18 18 9 184 Diphtheria, 1 2 6 1 1 1 12 Ears, 4 5 5 5 4 7 11 2 43 Eyes, 29 42 32 29 38 28 23 25 13 259 General...
...annual report of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, prepared by the Curator, Professor F. W. Putnam, shows that the past year has been an active one for the Museum. The most valuable part of its work has been the Archaeological researches which have been conducted in various parts of America. The most important of these researches have been made possible by the "Fund for the Encouragement of Mexican and Central American Research." This fund, maintained by yearly contributions, has enabled the Museum to carry on researches in Yucatan and Mexico for twelve years, and last year...