Word: health
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...close as the daily papers had led us to expect. On Friday afternoon the strong south-west-wind rendered the water too rough for shells, and the race was put off till the morrow. In the evening our crew took a short practice pull, and were all in excellent health and spirits. They anticipated a hard race and victory. The Yale men were well and jolly, except the redoubtable Cook, who was profoundly agitated because a neglected bed of weeds, opposite the city, had been buoyed, under the direction of Harvard, without consulting him; and the "Commodore" filled the surrounding...
...last we got on the health side of the question, and she struck into a new path by saying, 'Now, Cousin Harry, just to prove to you how unhealthy it is, I want to show you something papa taught me. Light your cigarette, - it's the only one I'll ever give you leave to light, - and fill your mouth with smoke. That's right. Now put down your cigarette and take your handkerchief...
...West and Southwest, acts as a clarifier of the blood, and a gentle tonic to the energies of persons enfeebled by long inhaling the pestiferous air of ague-breeding regions." One would fancy it a charming place for fellows obliged to leave college on account of ill health. But we caution such against the examinations. They have them once a month! The annual examination takes place at the end of the College year, and is conducted before "a disinterested committee of gentlemen of education from various districts of the State." The catalogue does not explain itself, but we suppose they...
...President White at the latest reports was on his way to Naples. His health was very much improved, and he hoped to reassume soon his duties at Cornell...
...dusty road, oases as it were in the dreary waste of college life. Even there, I claim, the time is not sufficiently long. To properly review the work of months within three weeks, without "exhaustive toil and midnight oil," is generally impossible. The ambitious student grinds and digs his health away, while the "bummer," secure in the thought of no recitations to-morrow, spends the days in sleep, the nights in "howls...