Word: air
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...destructive nature. There is, also, probably far less lounging in rooms during leisure hours than prevailed before the in-door gymnastics and the exciting field sports came into fashion. The effect on the health of the students, it cannot be doubted, has been extremely beneficial. Games in the open air, which call for the utmost vigilance, self-possession, promptness and pluck in those who take part in them, are not without an effect on character. They are a mental and moral discipline of no slight value. That a considerable portion of the leisure time of students is most profitably passed...
...most complete academy for physical culture in America. Members will receive instructions from competent professors in every branch of manly and athletic exercises. All this is to be capped by a running track and field on top of the roof of the building for the purpose of open air exercise. Also a new boat house for the club will soon be finished. The club cabled to England to secure the services of Rogers, the celebrated trainer of the London Athletic Club...
...have been in vain. But not until this result seems in some fair way of being attained should the agitation for this end cease. The same writer we have quoted also says very forcibly: "The great danger which besets our college students is not an undue fondness for open-air sports, but the direct reverse - a withdrawal from ordinary human life and a complete lack of interest in everything that goes on outside of his special sphere. In Cambridge they call this tendency "Harvard indifference;" but its influence is not confined to Harvard. If our educated men are to gain...
...would be the better for abstinence. 5. That the most abstruse calculations may be made and the most laborious mental work performed without artificial stimulus. 6. That all work done under the influence of alcohol is unhealthy work. 7. That the only pure brain stimulants are external ones - fresh air, cold water, walking, riding and other out-door exercises...
Very frequently the twelve o'clock car from Bowdoin square carries out two or three times the quantity of passengers that it can decently accommodate. When one does not wish to remain half an hour in the open air waiting for another car, it is unpleasant, to say the least, to be compelled to stand upon a small portion of a car-step (especially on a cold, windy night,) during nearly the entire trip. It is more than unpleasant; it is positively an injustice, if the company has at all in view the comfort of its passengers, - a matter which...