Word: healthfulness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Glee Alumni of Washington, tendered a banquet to president Dwight last Wednesday. President Cleveland was invited, but was compelled to decline on account of his health. All the members of his cabinet were present except Secretary Lamar and Attorney-General Garland. In addition to these were senator Evarts, senator Dawes, senator Hawley and a host of other prominent men. Colonel J. Edwards Clarke replied to the toast, "The Harvard Poet's tribute to Yale." Much enthusiasm was manifested at every speech...
...excellent scholar, genial, ambitious and energetic in disposition, and of consistent Christian character. Coming to college with but meagre preparation, he at once took high rank for scholarship, which he maintained throughout the course. After graduation he accepted a position as instructor in Groton Academy, but rapidly failing health soon compelled him to retire. The class whose number is now for the first time since graduation broken, loses one of its most promising members, and his friends a true examplar of firm Christian manhood...
...with undergraduate literature, making many mistakes of method in instruction where all methods are as yet experimental, the English Department works on; and feels year by year more gratitude to the critic at once severe and kind who has already made something out of nothing, and who with good health and fair play will make in time a department of which not even "John Donne" need be ashamed...
...creation from those who would be naturally expected to second his efforts. To attack Professor Hill therefore is doubly unjust; it is unjust because it is entirely unjustifiable; it is unjust because it imputes to a conscientious man (whose devotion to his work has more than once endangered his health), those errors and shortcomings for which others are in a large measure to be censured. It is unjust because it overlooks the difficulties which surround a man so situated; because it affirms as the opinion of the university that which is not the opinion of even a minority...
...cold beef given us at luncheon was more like a cold, iced piece of leather than any substance of nourishment. Besides turning away the appetite, such food is really injurious, and we have in mind now at least one student who is obliged to leave on account of his health, because the food has become unbearable. Would it not be policy for the directors to look into the matter a little...