Word: health
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Monday, March 20, James Robinson, who has been Princeton's athletic trainer for the past six years, died very suddenly of heart failure at his home. Mr. Robinson has been in poor health since last summer, but his death came as a surprise to the university...
...conclusion President Eliot said that corporations should provide their employees with those external conditions which will promote health, cheerfulness, and vigor in the working people. No corporate expenditure, he said, could be more productive or more profitable towards the improvement of the National character...
Walter Remsen Brinckerhoff, M.D., '97, instructor in pathology in the Harvard Medical School, has received official notification of his appointment as Director of the Leprosy Investigation Station at Molokai, Hawaii. The station is under the United States Public Health and Marine Hospital Service, and the work will be carried out under the direction of Surgeon-General Wyman. Mr. Brinckerhoff will have general charge of the hospital which contains about 30 beds. He has already started for Hawaii...
...since the period of the Athenian Democracy, which has served as an idol, though lacking the positive qualities of our modern government, the development of the State government over social conditions has gradually increase. Nowadays New York provides nurses and doctors for the public schools to look after the health of the children in order that they may not be handicapped in becoming good citizens; and when New York City builds new wharves, a second story is added to form recreation rooms for the poor. Is this not pure philanthropy on the part of the State, or better...
...William g. Anderson, director of the gymnasium, has obtained data to prove that the health of a student after graduation is not impaired by his college athletic training. Records were collected of 761 athletes who competed in intercollegiate events and won their "Y's" on the eleven, the nine, the crew and the track team between 1855 and 1904. We quote from his report. "These investigations show that the athlete possesses, as part of his equipment at graduation, the probability of better health and a longer life than the man who does not realize the priceless worth of a sound...