Word: health
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...press Berger at every hurdle. Page, of the U. of P., is, without doubt, the highest jumper in the college association, but if he refuses to enter, as is probable, Sherman, of Yale, will be a hard man to beat. Goodwin, Yale, '90, is another good man if his health will allow him to enter. She man also has a good chance to win a prize in the broad jump and pole-vault, although Robinson, Yale, '89, has an equal chance in the jump...
...when Turner's societies, into whose organization the quickening genius of Jahn breathed the life and growth, were flourishing all over the country. Soon after this, physical culture won its way to recognition on both hemispheres as an indispensable part of sound education, and as a preserver of health and restorer of strength, and it has spread very rapidly. During the past twenty-five years due homage has been paid to it in Europe and America, and the magnificent temples and humble tabernacles, which are expressly built in various institutions of learning and in other places for its worship, multiply...
...Health of Professional Men." Professor Francis Minot of the Medical School...
...consequence of this strange logic the body was disparaged, vilified, cursed, macerated and mutilated by a set of theologians, scholastic and mystical, who had wedded a religion divorced from science. The Olympic games were suppressed by an imperial decree. Manly exercises, the festivals of the seasons, mirthful pastimes and health-giving sports were discouraged as unworthy of a holy person. The crusade against the body, which consisted in wreaking all sorts of cruelties and degradations on the wondrous physical constitution, to the end of freeing the spirit from the pressure of its material fetters, reached later on a painful degree...
...Health of Professional Men." Professor Francis Minot of the Medical School...