Word: health
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...fitting oneself for one's work in this world the first requisite to success is health. How important it is, then, that everyone should understand the working of the human body. How many of those who pass through college and without going to the medical school, and enter on their life work,- how many of them have any proper knowledge of physiology? None. Doubtless a few of the athletic men know something about hygiene as far as training is concerned; and I believe we have had a few things called emergency lectures in times past. But I think that every...
Doubtless many will be glad to learn that W. H. Thayer, '89, has so far improved in health that he expects to return to college within a week...
...without taking time from his favorite game, and there by injuring his proficiency. Is it likely that he will make this sacrifice from an abstract love of the symmetrical? And is it reasonable to ask that he should? When we consider the numberless varieties of temperament and disposition; of health and courage, of inherited and acquired tests, we see that the physical education of young university men is a task as difficult as it is important, a task likely to tax the best judgment of the university authorities, as the committee on athletics at Cambridge could doubtless testify...
This is the grand object to be attained. The straight line is the physical sign of health and longevity, of perfect structure and harmony of function, and a symmetrical development of the whole body...
...competitors; 4th, by relying upon the natural resources rather than upon cultivated material; 5th, by depriving the non-athletic class of every incentive to physical exertion; 6th, by arousing the spirit of antagonism and fostering viciousness and brutality; 7th, by depriving them of their efficacy as a means to health...