Word: health
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...much importance. That the individual may reach the highest expression of his power, he must develop that which is part of his own nature. Every man should learn to value and to use his own individuality. It is a priceless gift, next in sequence of value to honor and health. It is the one power which all possess and which may lead to permanent renown: and if in his youth a man tries to put it from him, he comes as near as may be to the intellectual standard of that "base Indian" who "threw away a pearl richer than...
...great extent from the world, are always in danger of not accurately adapting students for activity. In old days, the university product was too often an overloaded and pedantic mind fed by a sickly body. The reaction came: the public declared that this was all wrong, that without health, knowledge was of little account. The needs of the body were made prominent, the student turned athlete, and now the university product is too often a heavy and powerful body feeding a diminutive mind...
...been a favorite idea with me all my life that an officer of the University should retire in the fulness of his health, strength and activity, and I am glad to have the opportunity of doing so myself...
...mentions any such extreme measures at all. The great body of students in Harvard today feel that some reform in athletics is needed. These students are not greatly prejudiced either for or against athletics; they believe that athletics are good and give undoubted contributions to the upbuilding of health, manliness, and morality; and, on the other hand, they believe that athletics have no monopoly on goodness, and that at the present time, they absorb more than their due share of attention. Students in general wish to see athletics have just their due share of attention,- no more and no less...
...many persons. As some of these letters mentioned above have been from parents who are more or less exercised about the state of affairs in Cambridge, it will be well for the students in their letters home to emphasize the fact that there is an unusually good state of health in the University. In this way this unfortunate rumor may gradually be dispelled by the facts of the case and this needless anxiety on the part of parents be done away with...