Word: health
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...defeated by Mrs. Watts at Leicester, and as the latter was afterwards beaten by Miss M. Watson at Exmouth, on collateral form, the Berkeswell lady is considerably her superior. The lady champion plays such a strong game, and is possessed of such excellent nerve and judgment, that with good health she bids fair to retain her proud position for some time to come.-[Pastime...
...those men who do not play foot ball than a run across country on a pleasant afternoon for six or eight miles or, perhaps, even further. The runs at present are made purposely short in order that new men may be induced to come out and try this health giving sport. The advantage of a "slow hunt" is that all the hounds are kept together in a companionable body until the "break," making it pleasanter for those running than to allow them to scatter at will. The flyers are thus restrained and the new men and those out of perfect...
...merely with the hired and limited advantages of one in the city; and whether some provision ought not to be made for such institutions in hygiene and practical physical training as shall not only secure to our students a knowledge of the laws of personal health, but shall habituate them to a compliance with the conditions of a healthful physical development...
Every member of the freshman class who weighs one hundred and forty-five pounds or more and is in sound health ought to consider himself entitled to a seat in the boat. If '88 is going to support her captain, and wishes to meet with success in this branch of athletics it seems to me that there should be at least fifty candidates at the captain's room tonight...
President Seelye says of compulsory exercise in the gymnasium, "by close statistics carefully kept for twenty years, it appears that the health of an Amherst College student is likely to grow better in each year of his college course. The average health of the sophomore class is better than that of the freshman, and of the junior better than that of the sophomore, and of the senior best of all. This average is shown to have come from an improvement in the physical condition of the individual student, and not from a dropping out of the course of those...