Word: health
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...gives a man that pluck and grit under difficulties that must always be of service in after life. The assertion is made that those who are training for some athletic team are "entitled to the preference in the gymnasium and elsewhere" and that those who have only good health in view are "Crowded out and become discouraged." We venture to say that anyone who could make such an assertion as that can never have visited the Hemenway gymnasium on a winter afternoon, or have seen one of the many "scrub matches in baseball and football, which take place every year...
President Barnard of Columbia has improved very much in health during his stay in the South and will soon resume his regular duties...
...course I never ventured to apply for a scholarship. I knew that it would be useless. My marks were not high enough. I believe, however, that none of my instructors would have denied that I was a hard-working and needy student. During my senior year my health was broken, through spending my spare time as a private tutor or as clerk in the library at fifteen cents an hour, and also through lack of food which could not always be procured. Several of my classmates were living as gentlemen on scholarships which they did not need. Some were drawing...
...University of Pennsylvania a record of the ten strongest men is kept in the gymnasium. The ranking is based on general health as well as on mere strength...
Goldthwaite, '91, is much better in health and will return to college shortly...