Word: healthfulness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Perkins, '84, has again temporarily given up his seat in the university on account of ill health...
...Harvard College the right to run a stable is the important question before the committee on health in Boston. The college authorities desire to erect a stable for disabled horses in connection with the Veterinary School, but certain persons object to this extension of college duties...
...that '83 will yet be able to put a creditable crew on the river, but at present the prospect seems, to say the least, doubtful. The old stroke, who has served the class so faithfully in three races, will be unable to row this year on account of ill health, and his loss is a serious calamity to the crew. In addition to this, several other men who have sat in the boat in previous years refuse to row again for reasons best known to themselves; and altogether the outlook is decidedly dark. Under these circumstances it is the clear...
...objects which the university had in view in organizing the new department of Veterinary Medicine are briefly these: To train year by year a few competent and trustworthy practitioners; and to contribute to the progress of a branch of science which deals with many questions of public health and with great pecuniary interests...
...these days of chilling conservatism and abundant equivocation. The letter gives a valuable summary of the work accomplished by the new gymnasium during the three years of its existence. It will well repay perusal. The writer concludes: "the success which the gymnasium has met with, from the purely health point of view, has been in great measure due to the many valuable exercising machines of Dr. Sargent's own invention, which were placed in it three years ago. He has invented others, equally valuable, since, but with the usual miserly conservatism of college governments, no inducement has been offered...