Word: health
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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LECTURES ON HEALTH AND STRENGTH.Dr. Edwin Farnham, of Cambridge, will give a course of twenty lectures in Sever 11, open to all members of the University, on Health and Strength, on Tuesdays, at 2 p.m., before the recess, and on Wednesdays at 7.30 p.m., after the recess. The first lecture will be given on Tuesday, December 15th...
...special clinical instructor in the disease of the nervous system; James Jackson Putnam, M. D., instructor in the diseases of the nervous system; Frederick Eugene Rice, M. D., M. R. C. V. S., instructor in anatomy and materia medica in the veterinary hospital; Edwin Farnham, M. D., lecturer on health and strength, all for 1885-86; and Winfield Scott Chaplin, A. M., Dean of the Faculty of Lawrence Scientic School. It was voted not to concur with the President and Fellows in the establishment of a professorship of American Archaeology and Ethnology...
...were elected: president, Dr. Hitchcock; vice-presidents, Professors Richards and Sargent and Miss Putnam; secretary, W. G. Anderson; treasurer, J. D. Andrews; council, the president, vice-presidents, and William Blaikie and Professor McIntyre. A discussion was had regarding the essential relation of exercise and adequate physical training to good health. Among the speakers were A. Colbertson, formerly of the Columbia College gymnasium; W. G. Anderson, of the Adelphi Academy; Mr. Blaikie, author of "How to Get Strong and How to Stay So;" and Professor Koehler, of West Point. Steps were taken toward the establishment of a normal school...
...investigations which have been conducted by the Massachusetts Bureau of Labor have resulted in some interesting facts regarding the health of female students. The commonly accepted opinion that mental labor, if at all severe or long continued, is prejudicial to health, is here refuted by statistics derived from various sources. In one case, seven hundred and four returns made, it was found that seventy-eight per cent of the women graduates heard from, were in good health. Upon entering college, the health of twenty per cent was below par. After graduation, impaired health was found in only seventeen per cent...
Those whose health was not good suffered chiefly from nervous diseases. It was also found that girls from the country do not make as good a showing as regards health as those who were natives of cities. Although these statistics are looked upon by the advocates of higher education of women as conclusive, we cannot admit that they are sufficiently large or complete to convey much weight. The variation in physical condition, before and after the acquirement of a collegiate education was only three per cent. This fact, which is the one from which any conclusion can be drawn, might...