Word: healths
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...reasons, the faculty did not deem it advisable to prohibit the usual foot ball game on the polo ground on thanksgiving day of this year. The authorities of the college are of the opinion that manly sports should not be discouraged but rather encouraged, as fitted to promote the health of students. To give agility of frame and self control, and by no means injurious to morals...
...Wilder is probably the oldest undergraduate in the world. He entered the University of Vermont with the class of '32, but was compelled to leave on account of ill health. He has recently entered '85 in that institution, and hopes to take his degree next June.-[Yale News...
President white showed that the average standing and mental qualifications of crew men were higher than the average in a college as a whole, citing his own case as an example. As regards the health of the men, he spoke of statistics carefully prepared from English universities of the men who had taken part in rowing contests, as showing that the health of each one was not only not injured but decidedly benefited by the course of training. President White went on further to say that boating was an excellent way to work off the surplus energy of the students...
...foreign to physical exertion of any kind. It is impolitic for the hard student to devote his entire time to a course of life calculated to steadily undermine his constitution. No man can accomplish such ends by so easy means as he can when he is in strong, good health. We think this subject cannot be too strongly recommended to the calm consideration of every member of the college who seeks not only present success and good health, but success and good health in the future...
...doesn't exercise at all should remember that he can't keep his physical condition at a standstill. No exercise means necessarily a falling off of bodily strength, while a comparatively small amount of energetic physical exercise each day will develop muscle and produce good bodily health. Men who seek mental superiority and neglect the condition of their bodies seem to forget the Latin phrase, "mens sana in sano corpore...