Word: health
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...MacVeagh graduated from Yale in 1862 and studied for the law at Columbia, but was forced to give up the profession on account of ill health. Since then he has been engaged in many mercantile and banking enterprises, fitting him for his present office, to which he was appointed by President Taft...
...reason for the usual undergraduate view of this matter is not far to sock. Men want "activities" and "success." They forget that college is a place of training, where athletics are good in so far--and no farther--as they make for health of mind and body. Therefore success in a sport means no more than bodily health and a mind trained to do something well. When a man talks much about activities, it implies either a great deal of energy, or a desire to see his name in print. The reasons for estimating the value of a sport...
...Boston Health Education League will hold its annual meeting on April 15, when addresses will be made by Dean Briggs, W. F. Garcelon L.'95, and other men prominent in the promulgation of methods for the bettering of public health. This meeting will be followed by a large gymnastic exhibition in the Boston Arena held under the auspices of the American Association of Physical Education. In this exhibition, representatives from various high schools and Dr. Sargent's School will give exhibitions in club swinging, fencing, dumb-bell drill, and other exercises of similar nature. An athletic exhibition has been arranged...
...made Dean of the Medical School. As Dean he made the school one of the foremost in the country. He was the man who conceived the plan of the present buildings, and it was mainly through his personal efforts that the necessary funds were raised. Because of his poor health he resigned as Dean of the Medical School...
...largely owe the splendid buildings of the Medical College. But it is not as professor and soldier alone that he has deserved well of the University, his community and his country. On the Boston School Committee, as trustee of the Boston Public Library, as student of the public health, he showed the same strong qualities for which his colleagues loved him as a comrade and a friend...