Word: freshness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...prevalent, and yet they take but few precautions against the greater evil of consumption. Alcohol, syphilis, want of pure air and good food are all productive of this terrible disease. Inherited consumption can often be cured by proper habits and regulations of life. When anyone is told to take fresh air for his consumptive troubles, he ought to keep out of doors all the time. We ought to make ourselves stronger, that our children may be started in life with better health and stronger bodies...
...north and east of Sharpsburg, where all his troops, except Hill's division, joined him. The Union forces were drawn up against him; and both sides fought fiercely during the seventeenth. Both parties were exhausted, and the Confederates began to draw in their lines. Then Sedgwick's fresh division of 6000 northern men made a charge. But at that moment Hill came up with his soldiers from Harper's Ferry, charged Sedgwick in the flank, and in twenty minutes routed the whole division. Then Burnside's troops drove up the southern wing of the Confederates. But Hill's division drove...
...table while some formula, the club's watchword is uttered over them. But this wholesale absorption is by no means the only occasion which the students take to empty a glass at one draught. If a newly initiated member, - a so-called "Fuchs" is present and becomes at all "fresh" in word or deed, an elder member need only beckon to him or call out "Bierjunge," when his glass is refilled and he has to empty it in face of the whole company. This is considered a great humiliation and amounts to asking everybody's pardon for his behavior...
...justice to correct our error. We shall always be ready to rectify any mistakes in our columns, and hope that whenever we have done in justice to anybody we shall be informed of it at once. But we cannot close this editorial without again expressing our severe censure of "fresh" conduct of any sort, whether from freshmen or sophomores, or men of any other class. Our former remarks were unjust, only so far as they were not directed against the real offenders. Indeed, the offense from sophomores is more censurable than from freshmen...
...deprives him of the chance of getting a fair amount of physical exercise, he should, if he wishes to keep himself in health, reduce the amount of carbon which he has been in the habit of introducing into his system. Fats and alcohol should be tabooed. The need of fresh air in all exercise is very great, and this is the great objection to all in-door exercise. The actual results of impure air arising from too many people in one place, is shown by the sufferings of those confined in the "Black Hole" of Calcutta. Huxley has computed that...