70 BULLETIN OP THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN. 



CIRCULAR. 



I. Food : 



1. Under tEe headings Breakfast, Luncheon, Dinner, please write in detail 

 what you customarily eat and drink at each meal. 



If possible, keep account for a week and indicate number of times each article 

 Is eaten ; thus : oatmeal, 7 ; beeksteak, 5, etc. 



Be specific regarding the quality of each article, as bread: graham, whole 

 wheat, white, rye ; meat : beefsteak, roast beef, roast chicken, enumerating each 

 separately. 



Indicate also, as accurately as possible, in what manner and how thoroughly 

 each article is cooked. Observe particularly whether the meat is boiled, broiled, 

 roasted, or fried ; how long the oatmeal and other cereals are cooked, whether 

 over night or only for an hour or two in the morning ; whether the bread is light 

 or heavy, etc. (Your landlady will doubtless gladly inform you upon these mat- 

 ters if you ask her, and she will probably be pleased to note your interest in her 

 culinary enterprises.) 



2. What articles of food do you like best? What ones really form the sub- 

 stance of your dietary? Do you eat between meals, indulge in midnight lunches, 

 etc.? Do you have dinner at midday or at night? 



II. Sleep : 



1. Do you sleep soundly? Dream much? How many hours do you plan to 

 spend in sleep? How late do you study at night? When do you go to bed ? 

 What time do you arise in the morning? 



2. Have you ever studied all night, or nearly so? What effect did it have 

 upon you? Has knowledge gained at such time been enduring? 



III. Study : 



1. How many hours per day? What are your study hours? Are they regular 

 and uninterrupted, or otherwise? How many hours may you count upon with 

 certainty to be entirely uninterrupted during the day? During what hours of 

 the day are you at your best? When are you dullest? Do you stimulate your- 

 self artificially to study? If so, how? 



2. Indicate the amount of time you spend upon each of your studies? How 

 many hours of written work each day? Pen or pencil? If pen, fine or blunt 

 point? Metal holder? If pencil, soft or hard? 



IV". Health : 



1. Headaches? Indigestion? Colds? 



2. Have you had your eyes examined by a skilled oculist? 



3. Indicate time spent by you in gymnasium : in open air. 



4. Do you dance? How frequently? How late? 



5. Do you smoke? Cigars, Cigarettes or Pipe? 



V. In General : 



What do you pay for board? For room? How large a room have you? How 

 many in it? How heated? How ventilated? Do you board yourself? Do you 

 do your own washing? How much work, manual or otherwise, do you undertake 

 outside of your University duties? 



A few words respecting the distinct purpose of this study and 

 the method of its prosecution should be added here. In the first 

 place, it was fully realized that it would not be possible to obtain 

 a great body of accurate, scientific information by this method, 

 especially in regard to the subject of food, in respect either of 

 quantity, quality, or the character of its preparation for utiliza- 



