Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 170, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 July 1912 — BLAMES GLASSES UPON CAPS [ARTICLE]

BLAMES GLASSES UPON CAPS

Doctor Bays Freshmen's Practice Injures the Eyes—Are Unpro- ; tected From Bun. Ithaca, N. Y. —Dr. Melven Dressbach of Cornell has compiled figures by which he shows that 27 per cent, of the men at Cornell wear glasses. He labels the habit of making the freshmen year little caps without any visors as a vicious habit and declares it should be abandoned as the caps furnish no protection to the oyss from the sun.