Word: fall
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...physical examination of Freshman was resumed this fall on the prewar basis. During the war, in spite of the absence of the head of the Department of Hygiene, these examinations were carried out in accordance with army standards and were of great value, in the first place to the army, and in the second place to the students, since both the army and the students could know from these examinations how each individual met the physical requirements of the army...
...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 more enlightened part of the public, may be regarded as well educated as to the importance of the care of the teeth. Furthermore, only rarely did we find a Freshman who had sufficiently gross uncorrected defects of the eye so that he needed the immediate attention of the oculist...
...Paralleling our experiences of the past, the actual amount of organic disease which was found was fortunately slight. This fall, we found that only 1.3 per cent of the Freshmen had organic heart disease, while 4.6 per cent of them presented hearts which we felt required a certain amount of supervision. These figures correspond closely to our findings in the past. Again we found a considerably larger number of students who were laboring under the belief that they had heart trouble, but who presented sound hearts, than we did students who had a damaged heart without knowing it. This emphasizes...
Many advantages are urged for the new plan. All holidays and anniversaries would always fall on the same day of the week while a promissory note given for any number of weeks, months or years will always come due on the day of the week it was given. The plan also provides that Good Friday and Easter Sunday be observed on certain fixed dates...
Harvard, however, is not taking any chances of having weak schedules, either next fall or this spring. The lists that have been approved by the Athletic Committee should silence the critics. If Harvard teams face any weak opponents, it will not be the fault of the managers...