Word: healthfulness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...sorrowful duty to announce the death of Professor Ernest Young, which occurred in Boston on Friday last. Mr. Young's health had been for some time past a source of anxiety to friends, but nobody was prepared for the sudden and tragical event of Friday. It was not till last week that his condition became at all alarming. At a consultation of physicians held on Thursday, it was found that he was threatened with insanity, and he was ordered to give up all work immediately. The knowledge that he was in a serious condition seems to have greatly deepened...
Curry, '89, has recovered his health and has returned to college from the Bermudas...
Prof. Francke has given up his courses in German and will probably go abroad for his health. German 1 will be conducted during the rest of the year by Messrs Babbitt, Harvard, '86, Markoe...
...Zinkeisen, '89, has been obliged to give up walking on account of poor health...
Professor Francis Minot, of the Medical School, delivered an interesting lecture last night on the diseases to which professional men are subject and the means of preventing them. The health of such men is above the average, as their freedom from anxiety and overwork, combined with the usually good sanitary conditions of their surroundings, more than counterbalances the evils attendant on a sedentary life. As brain-workers always take less exercise than manual laborers, they are cones queenly more effected by hereditary tendencies to disease, and their indoor life exposes them particularly to the maladies caused by defective plumbing. Proper...