Word: health
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...architect of Sever Hall has recovered his health, and work will now be pushed forward as quickly as possible...
...anxious to profit by your history. Very well, sir, if you do write the thesis it won't add anything to your mark. If you don't, I shall take off twenty per cent. I mark according to the state of a man's health, the size of his head, and my general idea of the time he goes to bed. I give the highest mark to the man who gets worst used up by the course. You are looking altogether too well, and unless you become excessively pale by the end of the year, I shall feel obliged...
...constitution, at no time strong, suffered from a severe illness at the end of his Senior year. Soon after graduating he went to Europe, and, after a few months spent in a partially successful attempt to recover his health, he studied in Paris and Dresden, applying himself to that which he thought would be of most assistance to him in his intended journalistic career, and was still pursuing those studies at the time of his death...
DAVID A. WELLS has sent a letter to the Finance Club, regretting that he will not be able to deliver a lecture before them this year on account of ill-health, and hoping to be able to give one next year...
...PHILIP, having exhausted the scanty advantages of Oxford, followed the example of the great Flavius Josephus, and went to Cambridge. The records of his life at this place are scanty. Devotion to study seems to have injured his health, for the college book sets him down as "greaviuslie trubbled by ye cattarrhhe in ye Wintrie Wether." We find, also, that he was on terms of intimacy with the leading men of the college, especially with a certain Decanus, - a man whom history passes over in silence, but who apparently was an instructor in ethics. This worthy man often invited young...