Word: health
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...injured husbands of the women who have sent the flowers. In the burlesque scene which follows the joke is turned on Narciso, but the amicable relations of the five friends are not upset by the fun, and as the curtain falls they drink to each others' health in a hearty toast...
That the stock-ticker, which after all is a delicate and sensitive electrical instrument, should register this moral regeneration, is a sign of health and not of disease, and the physician who detects the germs of that disease which is sapping public confidence and poisoning the industrial and political body, is a benefactor of his country and prophet of his day and his generation. When Jenner introduced vaccination into the domain of curative and preventive medicine, the reactionaries pronounced him as an enemy of mankind, but the next generation held him up as one of the greatest benefactors...
...special merit in a bachelor's degree. But between ourselves in the Intercollegiate Civic League, what, pray, is there about our college training, our four years of fraternity life, athletics, and electives to enable us to guess within gun shot of the amount necessary to run a board of health: whether asphalt pavement is an inch or a foot thick; whether a tenement house department is spending too little or too much money; whether a city budget should be $143,000,000 or $100,000,000; or just where economy is possible...
...emigration to America, his short ministry in Charlestown, his bequest to the infant College, and his early death. Of his brothers and sisters we know the names, and the dates of their deaths. From these a few other matters may safely be inferred; his Puritanism, for example, his feeble health, his interest in learning. Still other matters are conjectured by the author, such as that it was William Shakespeare who introduced John Harvard's father, his neighbor in Southwark, to the Stratford girl whom he married. These guesses are for the most part put forth with due reserve and supported...
...America. Mrs. Farabee, who accompanied the party, is still in Arequipa, where the Harvard Observatory is situated. J. W. Hastings '05 has recently returned to Cambridge, in accordance with his intention to remain only a year in South America. The other members of the party are all in good health and expect to stay in South America for the full three-year period. The trip of the first year was in the region of the Madre de Dios river, which is one of the tributaries of the Amazon. The rest of the explorations will be on other tributaries...