Word: beings
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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"The results of the physical examination of Freshmen ought to be interpreted as the final results of the physical condition of students at the completion of their preparatory school careers. Whatever defects are found should carry two suggestions: one, and the more important suggestion, prevention in the preparatory schools; and...
"In many ways our results can be interpreted as reflecting the sanitary intelligence of an enlightened group of parents. We find, for example, very few Freshmen who have neglected teeth. This has been our experience since these examinations were begun in the fall of 1914. The public, or perhaps the...
"The percentage of Freshmen who were not vaccinated against smallpox has run fairly evenly at 5 per cent throughout these five years. As might be expected, the number who had been vaccinated against typhoid fever had greatly increased. In 1914, the number was less than 1 per cent. In 1919...
"This year, we have again continued the rating of all of the Freshmen from a standpoint of bodily mechanics. This aspect of the work was inaugurated in 1916 by Dr. Lloyd T. Brown, and he has kindly continued supervision of it. The method of rating is as follows. The individual...
"The outstanding feature of the results of these studies in bodily mechanics is that the examination both in 1916 and 1919 show that 80 per cent of our Freshmen do not use the bodies well. To be sure, their poor bodily mechanics is offset by their youth and otherwise good...