Word: brainful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...brutal, or dangerous; nor does the excitement of the contest tend to cause participants or spectators "to resort to methods which their cooler judgment would condemn." Furthermore, this game gives ample opportunity for developing sound bodies, without drawing too much on the store of energy needed primarily for brain work. Tennis does not tend "to divide the students into two classes, those devoted to athletics, and those taking no interest in physical exercise at all," or "to discourage a general habit of athletic exercise...
...know whereof I speak. The sudden insanity of one of the most promising of recent graduates recalls painful memories of that forcing system which has so long been in vogue at my own university. The leader of my class shortly after entering upon his sophomore work died of brain fever. The brightest light of the class of '78 was on the point of being graduated with highest honors. His overwork for scholarships and other means of support had brought on severe headaches. A few weeks before commencement he became violently insane and died before his class graduated. My own room...
...need. Some were drawing two of these benefices at a time. The future, however, proved to me that I was much more fortunate than my fellows, who had become permanently disabled in their zeal for prizes and scholarships. Bodily exhaustion had prevented me from working permanent injury to the brain. I was enabled to return and be graduated, though for several years the effects of the strain were a constant reminder of what might have been...
...which professional men are subject and the means of preventing them. The health of such men is above the average, as their freedom from anxiety and overwork, combined with the usually good sanitary conditions of their surroundings, more than counterbalances the evils attendant on a sedentary life. As brain-workers always take less exercise than manual laborers, they are cones queenly more effected by hereditary tendencies to disease, and their indoor life exposes them particularly to the maladies caused by defective plumbing. Proper ventilation during the hours devoted to work and sleep is of the first consequence, and can best...
...only by the discipline and training to perfect obedience of that will. The opportunity for such discipline, the preacher continued, had been enjoyed by those young lives before him. They might not carry away much detailed knowledge; every one after an examination has experienced the shedding from his brain, as from a roof, of the floods of facts that have been poured upon it. But they could and should carry away what was of much more value. The patient labor of college years is the means of securing that training and soldierly discipline which is essential for the victory...