Word: health
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Setting aside the question of inconvenience, that of health comes up. Men complain of the evil effects of sitting in chapel for fifteen minutes with cold feet. This is nothing compared to the injurious effects of sitting almost motionless for three hours in Massachusetts. The building is as full of draughts as a barn...
...authorities should certainly take seasonable precautions for ensuring the health of the students. Many serious colds have their origin in this building. If it is impossible to heat the building, let it be abandoned. Sever is surely large enough to furnish room for the examinations. Let Massachusetts be kept carefully, as a relic and reminiscence of by-gone days; that is all it is good for. I hope the students can be aroused to a state of righteous indignation about this matter, as it is of great importance to all. I do not know whose duty it is to take...
...That steam heat would be far more comfortable to the occupant of a room, no one can for a moment doubt; neither can any one question the fact that it would be infinitely less trouble-some than the clumsy system now in vogue. In regard to the question of health, we quote from the last annual report of President Porter, of Yale, in which he says, "The most serious foes to health are late hours, late suppers *** and exposures to heat, dampness, and cold. The provisions for heating so many of our public and private apartments by steam...
...significant word on the subject of steamheating is contained in the following passage of his report: "The most serious foes to health are late hours, late suppers, insufficient clothing, and imprudent exposures to heat and dampness and cold. * * * The provisions for heating so many of our public and private apartments by steam is, and has proved to be, an important security against disease. The interest in athletic sports is, on the whole, an advantage to health and morals and good manners...
...president and secretary of the national board of health advise that all post-office employees be revaccinated to prevent the spread of small...