Word: health
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Pledging" is the oldest. By this custom the man pledged arose and stood, with drawn sword, near the one who drank, to protect him from the knives of his enemies. Now a-days he generally takes a social glass himself at the same time. From the idea of pledging, "health" drinking was easily evolved In drinking a health to a Roman lady one cup was taken for each letter in her name, - a performance often attended with disasterous consequences. Giving a toast is synonymous with drinking a health, for the former took its name from the custom of putting toast...
...trustees of Williams College held a meeting recently, and voted President Carter an indefinite vacation. It is understood that this is caused by President Carter's health, which has been poor of late, and not because of any dissatisfaction on either side. The college never had so large a membership as now, and the present freshman class is the largest ever in the college...
...that it is good for college and students alike that the plank walks in the yard be both promptly and plentifully bestowed. These piers, stretching out from the various buildings into the rivers and seas, which our yard is heir to, are of inestimable value to the life and health of the students, and few men could be persuaded to set out for recitation at all if they did not have the plank piers to pull up upon at the most dangerous parts of the grounds...
Prof. Richards of Yale has returned to his college duties. He is so much improved in health that there is no doubt of his ultimate recovery...
...while speaking of hospital facilities we cannot refrain from expressing our gratification at the singular good health of our students which has rendered the use of the unpretentious building on Holmes unnecessary. It cannot be denied that Cambridge, in the vicinity of the college at least, is a remarkably healthy place of residence. It is many years since our hospital has had a patient in its wards, and anything like the epidemic diseases which often cause other colleges to close their doors is utterly unknown to us. From the care with which our sanitary arrangements are constantly attended...