Word: health
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Health of Student Body Satisfactory
...physical examinations are of value in giving the professor of hygiene a basis for useful advice to undergraduates on health, and also have had the rather unexpected result of giving new confidence to many men who were afraid there was something serious the matter with them when there was not. These examinations are also significant as showing that the men who enter college nowadays, with rare exceptions, come to college with clean and wholesome bodies. There are compulsory physical examinations also for candidates for teams, and other students may have such examinations if they wish. The professor of hygiene...
...matter will perhaps be made clearer by an explanation of the functions of the agencies concerned with health and athletics. The department of hygiene, under Dr. Roger I. Lee, has general charge of the health of students. In this department are the medical adviser, Dr. Bailey, who takes care of students who are ill, and has immediate charge of the Stillman Infirmary; and the director of physical education, Mr. William H. Geer, who directs the compulsory exercise plan for freshmen and is in general charge of unorganized athletics...
...primary object of all these agencies, of course, is and should be the health and physical development of the entire student body. The progress made in the past few years in this respect is great...
Statistics compiled by the Department of Hygiene show that the general health of the student body is satisfactory. The incidence of illness is somewhat lower than in the general community; and the University, although it has its epidemics, has had them in recent years less severely on the whole than the general community...