Word: health
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...dread of that New York organized a Board of Health that set about teaching the new world the a, b, c of sanitation. Pigs were banished from streets and cellars, and that first year 40,000 windows were cut to let light into 40,000 tenement bedrooms that were dark and unventilated. Forty years we have wrestled with the powers of darkness and at last the law forbids the building of a tenement with a dark and airless room in it. The day is coming when it will forbid a man to own one. Meanwhile the sanitarians are trying...
...LECTURE. "Bacteria in Health and Disease." Dr. Harold C. Ernst. Harvard Medical School, Longwood avenue, Boston...
...Gentiles. Is not the motto, the greatest good for the greatest number, as applicable to collegians as to the general public? A hundred men or so are engaged in the various sports. But how about the other nineteen hundred? Are not these men worth considering? Are not their health, enjoyment, physical development worth a thought...
...there is health and life and sport and friendship, stern endeavor, courage, endurance and noble purpose in all this, and with it all often the best scholarship, for the athlete is fitted for hard study. Mens sana in corpore sano. There are doubtless athletes who do little studying, but there are few students who take no regular exercise...
...intended to confer an academic distinction like that attaching to other scholarships. It is the desire of the founders that in estimating the worth of a candidate for one of these scholarships weight shall be given not only to his mental and moral qualities, but also to his bodily health and vigor, especially as shown in proficiency in outdoor sports. In the assignment of these scholarships preference will be given to the descendants of John Coolidge, who settled in Watertown, Mass., about 1630, and to residents of Natick, Mass...