Word: healthfulness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Several changes are announced in the board of administrative officers of the University. Professor J. M. Pierce has been appointed Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences to succeed Professor Dunbar, who was forced to resign on account of ill-health. Professor John H. Wright has been appointed to succeed Professor Peirce as Dean of the Graduate School. Owing to the resignation of Professor Langdell of the Law School, Professor James Barr Ames has become Dean of the Law Faculty. The death of Professor Thomas H. Chandler left vacant the position of Dean of the Dental School which...
...need which he has met has been the most crying one which the University has felt within the past few years. Other needs have had a more important bearing on the life of Harvard as an institution of learning, but as a civilized community, none. That the demands of health and cleanliness can now be met with a fair degree of comfort and convenience is a privilege which, though it is generally taken as a matter of course, hard experience has taught us to appreciate and for which we are now heartily thankful...
Professor Williston of the Law School has been suffering for some time from ill health caused by overwork. He has in consequence been obliged to give up his college work for the present and will take a trip to the south for his health. His sickness is not at all severe, and it is expected that he will be able to resume his work after the Christmas recess...
...central character of the piece is Argan, a middle-aged man, whose ruling passion is his selfish fear of death. Though in robust health, in "insultingly robust health," as one critic has said, Argan has always some imaginary ill, for which he consults quack physicians. The chief of these, M. Purgon, holds his cowardly patient in perfect subjection, threatening him with the most horrible maladies if he neglects to take the various doses prescribed...
President E. B. Andrews of Brown University, says: "For those in perfect health and trained to it, football is safer than either rowing, yachting, gunning or running hounds. Rowing appears to be many times as fatal. So is baseball. Even tennis is worse...