Word: health
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...courses of study have been introduced, as well as a new scheme of honors. It is said that the Rev. S. G. Brown will cease his duties as instructor of Psychology and Political Economy with this term. He will be relieved by Rev. D. J. Noyes, if the health of the latter will permit...
About eight years ago a Boston gentleman undertook to settle definitely the question of the results of training upon the health. In order to do this he obtained statistics regarding a large number of boating men of both Harvard and Yale, and also much information regarding their general health. All of the facts ascertained by him tended to show that the effect of hard training upon the health was undoubtedly beneficial, and that on an average the expectation of life of these men, carefully considered, was exceeded by many years...
...ball clubs may be, their existence and their triumphs and eclat serve a valuable purpose in keeping alive the interest in physical condition without which the 'well-rounded man' will, under any system of education, be an impossibility. They have done much to create and foster the admiration for health and vigor without which college men, in our time, cannot exert much influence in the world, no matter how great their culture may be. The days are gone by when mere learning made an idol of the possessor. Culture in our time needs to have a man in good 'condition...
...health of the students has been good. A few have taken regular exercise under the direction of Dr. Sargent, though not so many as could have been wished...
...Bowdoin College, Professor A. S. Packard says he remembers Hawthorne as he looked in the recitation room, "with the same shy, gentle bearing, black, drooping, full, inquisitive eye, and low, musical voice that he ever had;" and Longfellow, sitting two seats behind Hawthorne a fair-haired youth, blooming with health and early promise...