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country nor to pick out the special instances where enthusiastic 

 pioneers have labored so devotedly and so successfully. Their in- 

 fluence is not forgotten though unmentioned. 



We must not expect a student to absorb and assimilate the 

 mass of information which has been accumulating, nor must we 

 expect him to submit to the cramming System as if he were a Strass- 

 burg goose with a fatty liver. We consider the problem of pro- 

 longing hfe to a hundred years as eminently biochemical. Why 

 should we not, perhaps either by some of the new synthetic carbo- 

 hydrates or new protein foods, adjust the seven ages of man, so 

 that the present unduly extended educational period shall not be so 

 disproportioned to his physiological development. 



