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discipline of the institution. It is gratifying to know tliat the chums 

 secured the good will of their instructors, graduated indue time without 

 accident or embarrassment, and are now occupying honorable and use- 

 ful positions in society. 



HYDROPATIIY. 



While improvements in the arts and sciences are so rapidly making, 

 and discoveries of new facts and new applications of those already- 

 known are daily promulgated, it is not strange that men, actuated by a 

 morbid desire for fame or vvealth, or with their judgment perverted by 

 an unrestrained imagination, should form visionary theories, and apply 

 such opinions to practical life. Such being the tendency of the age, it 

 becomes every one to exercise a judicious scepticism in reference to 

 matters of startling pretension. 



To many the word ^'reform'' is a battle cry of no ordinary charac- 

 ter. Let a banner with this inscription be raised, whether against the 

 orthodox religious, moral, social or scientific creed, and you have an ar- 

 my of the most incongruous character, uniting only in opposition to all 

 existing views, ready and anxious to gird on their swords, prepared to 

 battle against every thing approaching conservatism. 



Water has been recognized as a curative agent by every member of 

 the medical profession, from the days of Hippocrates, the great father of 

 medicine, to the present time. In the year 1797, an elaborate treatise 

 upon the remedial powers of cold water was published in England by 

 Dr. Currie, of Liverpool, and looking back from this date, we find the 

 medical works interspersed with laudatory notices of this sanative agent. 

 This fact is mentioned to show the ignorant presumption of those who 

 claim for Preissnitz the credit of having first discovered that water pos- 

 sessed any efficacy as a curative means. It frequently happens that an 

 ignorant person, having accidentally become aware of some plain truth, 

 well known to every intelligent individual, acquires much credit for 

 depth and originality of thought by pompously announcing this fact and 

 expressing with quixotic ardor his determination to defend his opinion 

 against the assaults of the world. The world smiles at such ignorant 

 enthusiasm, but disputes not. But when such a one becomes emboldened 

 by perceiving that his opinion exercises its legitimate influence upon 

 the actions of men and attempts to give it an undue prominence, making 

 it the sole guide to men's actions, thereby setting aside as worthless all 

 predetermined fact, it becomes necessary to show to what extent truth 

 belongs to such an opinion. 



