Word: health
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...meeting of the freshman crew, held Thursday, the resignation of Captain Bishop was acted upon and accepted. Mr. Bishop was obliged to resign on account of ill-health, his physician refusing to allow him to row again this year. It was voted to extend hearty thanks to Mr. Bishop for the very efficient manner in which the crew has been managed by him. Cumnock was unanimously elected captain for the remainder of the year, and he immediately reappointed Brooks manager...
...labored hard and faithfully for nearly a quarter of a century in the interests of the institution, whose chief he was. It will be no easy matter for the Board of Trustees to select a worthy successor to the responsible position which Dr. Barnard has been compelled, by ill-health, to vacate. As for the retiring president, he can desire no better reward than a retrospective glance at the ever-increasing prosperity of the college during the past twenty-five years-a prosperity which in great measure is due to his own careful supervision and activity...
...Hale more or less closely, and have felt the uplifting influence of his life among us. It is for our own sakes, as well as for his, that we are sorry he must leave a work in which he takes so deep an interest. We earnestly hope that recovered health may soon make it possible for him to renew his close relation with...
...method of marking is such that the averages cannot be obtained as exactly as a few years ago, but the conclusion is undoubtedly correct. Morgan's "University Oars" has settled the question for Oxford and Cambridge, that the men rowing in university races have a life longer and a health better than the average college graduate, and among them have been some of the highest double firsts and senior wranglers and some of the most noted men in intellectual pursuits in after life...
...extremely probable that President Barnard of Columbia College will soon be compelled to resign office owing to continued ill health. President Barnard is now seventy-nine years old and has held his present position for over twenty years. Since the beginning of this college year he has only been able to attend two faculty meetings, and has passed the winter months in Florida in the expectation of recuperating enough to be enabled to attend his college duties during the spring term. The only reason that can be given for President Barnard's clinging so tenaciously to leadership of Columbia...