Word: health
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Verily, noted the country, Milwaukee people look after their health. In 1924 only 72 of them committed suicide. Men can expect to live for 58.77 years, women for 60.70 years. The 1923 death rate was 10.8 per 1,000 of population...
...health of lyric drama everywhere that I have undertaken to produce the Musical Studio of the Moscow Art Theatre," explained Morris Gest in a recent interview with a CRIMSON reporter. "Without some such stimulus as Dantchenko and his synthetic theatre are providing, the lyric drama would, I believe, drop to even lower levels than it has now reached and I doubt if ever before the public interest in opera has been much lower...
...Overcrowded intellectualism, poor health, and weak nerves characterize schools and universities today", continued Dr. Kellerman. "In the German universities, there are no regular classes, no class spirit, and no college spirit. The professors read technical, scientific lectures and are indifferent as to whether the students attend or not. Faculty meetings are unheard of, the professors being engrossed with their own studies. In neither the Gymnasium nor the universities does one find any form of extra-curricular activities. Parties, social gatherings, clubs, and other forms of group recreation are seldom found to exist in any of the higher institutions of learning...
...Health. There was the usual stirring talk on health education, this time by Superintendent William J. O'Shea of New York. One of his statements on the subject was: "In my opinion, health education is one of the fundamental aims of a modern public school system." A long conference brought out health recommendations for school rooms: Keep the temperature always between 66 degrees and 68 degrees F.; establish lighting standards at least equivalent to those in factories, counting rooms; use window ventilation, with deflecting boards, and not mechanical ventilating contraptions...
...year of missionary service in India was too much for the health of Dr. Henry Simpson Lunn. He returned to his native Lincolnshire, life having apparently robbed him of the purpose toward which his 30 years of youth had devoutly and painstakingly moved. These years of preparation had culminated in the degrees of M. A., B. Chir., M. D. and in marriage to the daughter of a canon. What to do at 30? It was the year...