Word: healthful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Friday, who had a desk but no official position in the Department of Justice, was found dead in the next room. A pistol lay on the floor beside him. He was pronounced a suicide. He had enjoyed life; why had he left it? Washington people said that ill health and imminent scandal had burdened his mind...
Herman N. Bundesen, health commissioner, Berlin...
...glass of beer behind the bar (as he was too self-conscious to do in his Oxford days) he drew a foaming schooner. "Your health!" he tasted the foam, then left the glass up on the bar where eager hands seized, drained it. "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow!" roared the bums. Perhaps abashed, Edward drifted toward the door, passed through the crowd with several handshakes and a jest. Thend sought a moment's respite...
...them almost wholly supported by the revenue of intercollegiate football. The vicious circle at once becomes apparent. Successful football teams and huge stadia to house them form a business activity in which no college can afford to fall. Upon the shoulders of eleven men rests the physical development and health of the whole development and health of the whole undergraduate body. And since the development of bodily health has become a recognized duty of the college toward its students the college must have good coaches, good football players, large stadia at almost any cost...
...financial returns from three or four Billy Sundays lecturing in Mechanics Hall and the New York Hippedrome on government, literature, and science at five dollars admission. It would be laughable of course but it is no more illogical and wrong than to make the development of bodily health depend upon a similar system. This like the development of the mind. Should depend upon endowment in the case of private institutions, and upon legislative appropriations in the case of state universities. The CRIMSON hopes that Harvard, leader in a same athletic policy, will be the first to raise an athletic endowment...