Word: healthfulness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Professor Harkness, of Brown, the celebrated Latin scholar, has been spending the winter in Italy, for the benefit of his health...
...statements that have been made concerning the unhealthfulness of Yale College and of the supposed cases of sanitary defects, a special inquiry has been made by a committee consisting of C. F. Chandler of Columbia College, N. Y., Dr. C. A. Lyndsley of the New Haven board of health, and Prof. William H. Brewer of the Sheffield Scientific School, for the benefit of the patrons and friends of the college. The committee reports that there is no specially unhealthful condition; that there is no reason for alarm, and that the students seem to be in their usual health...
...William Perry, of Exeter, N. H., the oldest surviving graduate of Harvard College, celebrated his ninety-sixth birth birthday on the 20th ult. He is in remarkably good health...
...influence has been of the very best. Much time has been spent there in healthful recreation and exercising, which would otherwise have been spent in loafing or something much worse. Larger numbers each year have taken advantage of the opportunities offered and a constantly increasing degree of health and strength is exhibited by the official figures each winter. The careful physical examinations have proved of great benefit, as leading men to perfect themselves in the parts where they are weakest. What is better still, is that this physical training and exercise is not confined to the members of selected teams...
Owing to the state of his health and declining years, Prof. Owen has resigned his appointment as superintendent of the natural history departments of the British Museum...