Word: health
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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John Baird, Princeton's fullback, who was chosen captain for next year after the Yale game has resigned owing to ill health and Addison J. Kelley, who has played right halfback for three years, has been chosen to succeed...
...Camden, New Jersey, on August 10th, 1874. He prepared for college at the William Penn Charter School in Philadelphia. After receiving at Harvard the degree of A. B., he entered the Medical School of the University of Pennsylvania. Being unable to continue his studies there on account of ill health, he went South to Bermuda. But his health failed to improve, and his death-caused immediately by some pulmonary trouble-occurred on January 27th...
Pennsylvania was the first to adopt, with slight modifications, the recommendation of the New York conference with regard to uniformity in entrance examinations for all colleges. The university has provided a competent physician who has supervision not only over the athletic teams but also over the health and work of all the students. The report dwells at length on the self government of the students, both in Houston Hall, where the daily attendance averages fifteen hundred, and in the dormitories, which have been occupied only a year. Large additions have been made to the botanical garden, the dental department...
...known member of the Suffolk Bar, died in West Somerville last Monday morning, aged fifty-four. He was born in Eliot, Me., where he received his early education, and was graduated from Harvard with the class of 1867. Three years ago he gave up his practice owing to ill health...
...plans proposed in another column this morning in regard to some general system of prescribed physical culture here at Harvard, will arouse considerable interest. The feeling has become general of late among many of our graduates, that not only are many men losing as much in bodily health as they gain in mental development during their stay in college, but that our athletes often do not make the most of themselves. In the one case it is simply because regular exercise is not thought of; in the other because it is merely seasonal...