Word: health
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Vrooman, president of the Harvard Union will go abroad for his health during the coming year...
...closely scrutinizes athletic records can doubt this; but they are pressed down by the inertness of other men who will make no attempt unless it is quite to their taste and unless success seems practically certain. There are, to be sure, able men for whom the conditions of finances, health, or intellectual work make participation in athletics unadvisable, and with such men no one quarrels. But when a man could probably with practice do something for the University and shrinks from the attempt out of pure languidness; when he refuses to do anything unless he feels confident that he himself...
...money-and the number of such who come to Harvard is very large-the cost of board is the most important variable in expenses. The increased price of board would have one of two effects. Either such students must content themselves with poorer board and the inevitable reaction on health and intellectual power, or else they must give up the idea of Harvard and choose some other university...
...called good society. Did it ever occur to them that there is a select society of all the centuries to which they and theirs can be admitted for the asking, a society, too, which will not involve them in ruinous expense and still more ruinous waste of time and health and faculties? Du gleichst dem Geist den du begreifst, says the World Spirit to Faust, and this is true of the ascending no less than of the descending scale. Every book we read may be made a round in the ever-lengthening ladder by which we climb to knowledge...
...sophomores. The rumor will appear still more exaggerated if we examine other statistics of the class. It had, at the beginning of the year, four hundred and nine members. Of this number of course there were some who failed to complete the year on account of lack of health or funds; but, of this entire number only forty-four men were, by the enforcement of discipline, removed from their class either during the year or at its close and either for deficiency in studies or in conduct...