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tliistrinl life but form the basis on which to Ituihl our mnguificent systems 

 of education, morality and politics. As human knowledge advances the 

 realm of superstition and bigotry contracts because there can Ije no super- 

 stition where knowledge is and no bigotry where broad views of things 

 exist. Science shows that all processes of nature are based on immutal)le 

 laws. Many of these are known, others are foreshadowed by the brilliant 

 conceptions of the scientific imagination, while some are still unknown 

 and belong to the category which was once regarded as supernatural, but 

 which is now relegated to the undiscovered. If science in its comparative 

 infancy has thus been able to make such magnificent contributions to 

 those elements which make life worth living, what may we not expect of 

 the fntiu'e years, when the knowledge which we have to-day will seem 

 only as ignorance to our descendants? We judge science by what it has 

 already accomplished. We knoAV it 1)y its results. AVhen these wonder- 

 ful contributions to human v.-elfare shall have been made in the future,' 

 the words of our text will be no less true: "Ye Shall Know Them by 

 Their Fruits." 



Transmissible Diseases in College Towns. 

 Severance Burrage. 



The college town of moderate size is unique in some respects, unique 

 in the possession of certain opportunities for the contraction and dissem- 

 ination of various diseases. College students, as a class, are looked upon 

 as healthy to an unusual degree, and in many respects this view is a 

 correct one; and yet when looked at from the standpoint of sanitary 

 science, we find them exposed to many dangers that are oftentimes over- 

 looked. Many of these dangers do not exist in other communities. 



The herding together of a lot of men or boys into unhygienic quarters 

 in unsanitary dormitories is one of the features of the student's life that 

 must be looked upon as a danger. It is also an added responsibility to 

 the college authorities. When the dormitory fulfills all the requirements 

 of the rules of hygiene and sanitary science; and when there are good 

 hospital facilities for students living in the dormitory who may become 

 ill with a contagious or an infectious disease, then the above statements 

 might be somewhat modified. 



