Word: health
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...sugar tariff is a burden on the poor. - (a) The poor man must consume more in proportion to his ability to pay than the rich: C. Wright in 17th Annual Report of Mass. Bureau of Statistics of Labor, p. 270, seq.; Atwater in American Public Health Association, XV., 226. - (1) Carbohydrates necessary to life. - (2) Sugar is the most economical carbohydrate: Atwater, p. 209. - (3) The laboring man consumes the greatest proportion of this constituent. - (x) Bricklayers: Atwater...
...suffering severely from consumption. The high altitude of Colorado affected his heart and he began to fail rapidly. In hope of relief he returned to his home again, where he died within a few months. While in Colorado he kept up with his studies, intending, if his health permitted, to enter his class this fall. He was a quiet, conscientious student, with a manly, earnest character and was devoted to his college...
...greatest number of successful athletes at Harvard have always been men who have come to college with no athletic reputation, but who have developed by earnest conscientious work. The work, carried on as it is under the direction of an expert in physical training, cannot but be beneficial to health...
Oliver Wendell Holmes, M. D., LL.D., Litt. D., D. C. L., Professor of Anatomy Emeritus, died yesterday at his home, 296 Beacon street, Boston. About ten days ago he came to the city in poor health, and last Friday he was taken seriously ill. He was suffering from asthma, but the physician in attendance left him yesterday morning, thinking he was in no danger. His death, hastened by heart failure, occurred suddenly at about noon...
...open to all members of the University who wish to pursue a regular systematic course of training in view of maintaining their health and improving their general physical condition. The exercises consist of free movements, wand, club, and dumb-bell drills, etc., and will be carried on in a progressive series through the fall and winter terms. Attendance upon these exercises is voluntary, but regular positions will be assigned for those who apply for them. Applicants may enroll their names on one of the plans of the main floor now ready in the janitor's office. During the period allotted...