Word: health
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...said to stand in loco parentis. The university of the other type assumes no responsibility for the detail of the student's life. In both types, however, it is equally essential to success that the location and surroundings of the university should offer no impediment to the convenience, health, and powers of self-maintenance of the students...
...perfectly how much wholesome restraint such an athletic sport exerts over new men at college, coming at the time when they are weakest. The need of good exercise is the cause of much of the danger of a university life. What could be a better preparation for morality and health and success than the hour's exercise on Jarvis and the hot and cold shower and rub down that follow? Three months of it can easily add twenty pounds to a man's physique, and 10 per cent. to his examination marks, and 50 percent. to his manly self-respect...
...social way he was well-known, being an early member of the Institute of 1770, of the Hasty Pudding and Delta Phi Clubs. After graduation, he gave himself up to business in Boston. His health became unsettled and early in the autumn he went to a health resort near Seneca Lake, N. Y., where he died...
...questions of the Senior Statistician of Yale have been distributed and contain several new features. Among these are inquires concerning the physical effect of the four years, the effect of study on the eyesight, and also whether the climate has proved detrimental to health. The men are also asked to describe the injuries, if any, which have been received from athletics...
...Many of the old soldiers are in urgent need of assistance. - (a). Service in the army was disastrous to their health. - (b) They were poorly paid and paid in depreciated currency. Teller in Cong. Record June 23, 1890. - (c) The end of the war found the soldiers unfitted for peaceful pursuits. - d) For these reasons they have been unable to provide for their...