Word: health
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...admission by the new method are required to file a statement giving full information about themselves and their courses of study. They also state what they are interested in as regards activities outside of school as well as during school hours. In addition the applicants are required to file health certificates which are the result of a medical examination. Provided that they can file a complete school record, showing that they have completed satisfactorily the full requirements for admission to college, and that they have graduated from an acceptable secondary school, and can show a letter of recommendation from...
...addition to a required three hours of exercise per week, there will also be a series of fifteen to twenty hygienic lectures for the Freshmen, attendance at which will be compulsory. At these lectures various health authorities will demonstrate and explain the fundamental values of physical welfare...
Prohibition is defended on moral grounds, and to a certain degree these arguments carry weight. Distilled liquors are most harmful to the health and morals of the population and three manufacture should be forbidden. But the bad effects of beer and light wines are very slight. These good effects consist in making a great number of people contented. On narrow dogmatic moral grounds absolute prohibition is right. On those of expediency and common sense absolute prohibition is wrong, and should not be tolerated to go into effect July 1. Were the country given a few months delay such a movement...
...Victory Liberty Loan campaign is two thirds over but subscriptions have been reported for little more than one third of the Loan. Our sons gave of their health, of their strength, and of their lives, that freedom might not perish. There are one and a half million American boys in France and Germany. Now that the war is ended it would be as reasonable for them to dishonor the nation by deserting the flag as for the nation to dishonor itself by deserting them. Is it a large thing that we are now asked to lend our money...
After forty years of untiring service in a field of vital importance, the promotion of health and strength in thousands of students, Dr. Sargent announces his intention to retire from the active direction of the Hemenway Gymnasium. It is easy to understand Dr. Sargent's desire to be relieved after a lifetime of devoted work, but it is difficult to be reconciled to his going. To every student who has come in contact with him, Dr. Sargent is as real and genial a friend as he is a helpful physical advisor. Outside the limits of Cambridge Dr. Sargent is almost...