Word: health
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...explanation. The almost universal consensus of hygienic opinion today is against eating houses that provide for their patrons no attractive rooms for pleasant social intercourse before and after the meals. "To chat and smile and wait awhile" instead of rushing in and out is now a rule of health for all self-respecting persons so widely recognized that no restaurant or dining room is considered well regulated that is not immediately connected with a pleasant social room...
...mode of infection of Infantile Paralysis has been discovered by officers of the Bussey Institute and of the Medical School working in collaboration with the Massachusetts State Board of Health. It has been found that the ordinary stable fly or Stomoxys Calcitrans transmits the virus of the disease. The discovery is a brilliant example of modern experimentation...
...well-established fact that diseases have been carried by insects led the State Board of Health, of which Dr. Henry P. Walcott '58, of the Corporation, is chairman and Dr. Mark W. Richardson '89 is secretary, to start a through investigation of the disease along those lines in the summer of 1911. Mr. C. T. Brues, instructor in economic entomology in the Bussey Institute, and Dr. Philip A. E. Sheppard, M.D. '10, took charge of the research. They sought to find insects whose habits fitted in with the occurrence of the disease both as to place and time. After eliminating...
Professor Henry Sylvester Nash '78, D.D., senior member of the faculty of the Episcopal Theological School, died early yesterday morning after an illness of over a year. Last spring he was obliged to give up his classes, but his health improved during the summer, so that he began lecturing again this fall. After giving only a few lectures, however, he was obliged to relinquish his work...
...issue of the "Harvard Musical Review" appears another magazine to claim its share of undergraduate interest. To the average observer it would seem that the number of students sufficiently interested in music to subscribe to such a paper would be much too small to insure it life and financial health, or at least in comparison to its older brothers the "Monthly" and the "Illustrated." And, no doubt, the very fact that enough enthusiasm was generated among the students to produce even the initial number of a paper which contains only material of a purely musical nature will, people, induce...