Word: health
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...least in the East an encouraging tendency to recognize both the good and bad in American athletics and an attempt to remedy the defects. The "Presidents' Agreement" between Yale, Princeton and Harvard is one example; another is the report of the standing committee of the Board of Overseers on health and athletic sports, published today...
...report of the standing committee of the Board of Overseers on health and athletic sports, recently accepted by the Board, was made public yesterday...
Your committee has studied the present organization and work of the various agencies at Harvard University which are engaged in the management of athletics and the safeguarding of health, and is impressed by the advance that has been made. A generation ago only a comparatively few men engaged in athletics, and the responsibility of the University for the health of its students was largely confined to taking care of illness. Today Harvard is actively concerned in bringing athletics within the reach of all, and in the positive promotion of the health of the student body as a whole...
...eminent statistician some time ago announced that the United States could not run more than twenty million motor cars. For more than that number there would be no money, no gas, no room, and no need. The increasing number of fume-emitting motors, according to public health officials, has made the Americans a race of blood-poisoned nervous wrecks. The nation is already half saturated with cars, and last month more were made than in any previous month. What dauntless courage is fostered in Detroit to assert that every man, woman, child, and college student will throw away their...
...addition to his regular work, Dr. Emerson served for twelve years as an associate in physiology and medicine in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, and for eight years as a visiting physician of the Bellevue Hospital. Between 1915 and 1917, Dr. Emerson was president of the Board of Health and commissioner of the Department of Health of New York City, doing much notable work along the lines of health conservation. More recently, he has been professor of preventative medicine at Cornell and a lecturer at Teacher's College, Columbia, and at the New York School of Social Work...