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...only are there fewer psuedo-sick midyear dodgers this year, but Harvard is generally healthier than at any time since 1935, according to Dr. Arlie V. Bock, Oliver Professor of Hygiene...
...Bock doesn't know how to explain the very definite improvement in Harvard health. Since 1935 each year has seen a sad increase in the medical requirements of students. Dr. Bock said that as early as last spring he "had a hunch" that there would be less patients this year. Evidently some sort of cycle is at work, and Harvard is on the upswing at the moment. If the United States as a whole is at the same stage, it would seem that Japan chose a singularly inauspicious moment for her attack...
...furnishes a possible explanation for this question as well as the exam dodgers. Dr. Bock suggests. It has been the experience of doctors in England that the excitement of a war as well as the feeling of a large common objective, has taken people's minds from their own ailments. In fact the group in England which has had the most complaints is the army, waiting in boring expectancy to defend Britain from German invasion...
...Bluebook blues" is not only a fake malady. Exams only intensify what Dr. Bock believes are the ever-present problems of the undergraduate. "Year after year we try to explain, but they don't listen to us," he said. They stay up all night, feeding on coffee, coca-cola, caffein tablets, and benzedrine sulfate." If students would go to bed around 11 o'clock instead of cramming. Dr. Bock feels that they would do better on the exams next morning...
Especially during midyears, Dr. Bock said, daily exercise is extremely important, "One hour a day of good fast exercise will help a great deal to keep a boy fit for his exams...