Word: healthfulness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...shape of a prescribed number of hours given to athletics in the three years preceding an undergraduate's matriculation. Exercise is compulsory in all the great public schools of England, and Oxford and Cambridge, as well as Woolwich and Sandhurst, are recruited by boys who have had health knocked into then on athletic fields...
...America the tendency both in school and college is to narrow the number of those who take regular athletic training to those who find some hope of "getting on the team." In England there are dozens of "teams" in each school and the goal is good health and honest sport rather than winning a game. It is this spirit that progressive universities such as Harvard and Yale should foster in the preparatory schools, if necessary, by arbitrarily requiring a certain amount of physical development...
Charles B. Durham 1900 died at the Cambridge Hospital Sunday morning of heart disease. He had been in poor health for some time and was taken to the hospital last Tuesday. He seemed to be improving Saturday night but relapsed and died early Sunday morning. His mother and father were with...
...Burrell, lately surgeon-general in the state militia, spoke upon the personal care of volunteers in campaign. He said in substance that the ability to make forced marches and to win decisive victories depends no less upon the health of the individual soldier than upon the maintenance of good discipline. The number of men killed in a war is always less than the number of those who die of disease. In the Crimean war the proportion was one to twelve; in our Civil War, however, only one to two. To keep the troops in perfect physical condition is the great...
...morning of Saturday, May 7th, Lucian Everett Gibbs of the class of ninety-seven of the Lawrence Scientific School, passed away at his home in Cambridge. For some years he had been in delicate health. The immediate cause of death was a complication of heart trouble and congestion of the lungs. In spite of his long illness, the news of his death comes as a great shock and sorrow to his friends and classmates...