Word: health
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Attempts have been made in the last few years to boom single sculling at Harvard. A cup has been offered to the best sculler in college and the race is more sharply contested every year. It seems strange that so manly and health-giving an exercise as single sculling, encouraged by all the boating men of the college, has never been encouraged by the gymnasium authorities. Among the apparatus at the gymnasium there is nothing that resembles single sculling in the least. There are certainly more scullers than bicyclists in college, yet we have two or three practice wheels...
...President Porter returned from a four and one half months' foreign trip on Sunday. While abroad he has been the recipient of the highest honors, a degree from Heidelberg and an L. L. D. from the University of Edinburgh. His usual good health is restored, and he will resume, after the Thanksgiving recess, his old position with the seniors as instructor in Ethics...
...have done. I ought to have taken my seat long ago. I am conscious of the infirmities of age, of health, of voice, which incapacitate of justice either to myself or to the occasion, and I am more than conscious that there are distinguished guests here from other colleges and from other climes who have a right to be heard, and that I enjoyed my right fifty years ago. Let me only in taking my seat, give honor to my alma mater on this birthday of hers in the presence of all her assembled sons, my heartfelt hopes and wishes...
...great regret of the college community, Dr. Farnham will not lecture on Health and Strength during the coming year...
...season will take place this afternoon, unless prevented by rain. There is no sport into which so many persons can enter with so small a chance for possible harm, and there is no form of exercise more beneficial, as well as exhilarating to men enjoying average good health. The slow runs are not severe - for the running is not continuous and there is often an opportunity for walking or even resting. No one is compelled to race for home when the break is made. Therefore, men who have never done much running need not fear to try their modest powers...