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...attendance at it, this is his sole object. We think there is hardly a man concerned in athletics at Harvard whose moving impulse in entering into a sport is not far more the idea of sound bodily training, regular exercise and pleasant recreation far more than any exclusive and feverish desire to win games. This every such man we believe individually feels. College teams often seem to direct their energies in another way. But so long as the benefit of the individual is secured it does not much matter (comparatively) as to the rest. It is true many...
WHILE I was knocking about among the California and Nevada mining camps, fascinated by this feverish life, I chanced to hear of Bodie, "the latest strike," as they called it. Not far from Mono Lake, in the great desert that lies to the east of the Sierra Nevadas, and more than a hundred miles through the sand from the nearest base of supplies, some one had found a rich deposit of gold. At once miners, merchants, gamblers, and all the male and female floating population of the Nevada mining camps made a rush for the spot. In three months arose...
Stocks yesterday in New York were weak and fluctuating, and speculation was fickle and feverish...
...following concerning some causes of heart disease, and the evils caused by the use of tobacco, we clip from the N. Y. Tribune. "There is an increase of heart trouble, as there always would be in feverish and hurried lives. Many lives are intense enough to strain the whole human system, and increase and hurry the circulation and finally weaken it. A prominent English physician has written his experience in the matter of athletic exercises. Young men, boys who are not fully developed, strain their young muscles, hurry their breathing and circulation, whether by athletic games or rowing. Of those...
...stock market in New York yesterday was feverish, opening strong, declining, and then advancing again. There was strong buying of stocks on the growing belief that there is to be a general advance in the future...