Word: healths
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...exceptional cases, taken as a general statement no argument is required to prove absurd. Men of muscle do need exercise. The men who suffer most from the confinement of student-life are the men of vigorous bodies. Many of them, without the capacity of self-control, and without the health which they gain by exercise under the present system of athletics, would never be able to graduate. Many others would graduate with impaired bodily powers, and others still as slaves to habits of dissipation...
President Seelye of Amherst says of compulsory exercise in the gymnasium: "By close statistics, carefully kept for twenty years, it appears that the health of an Amherst College Student is likely to grow better in each year of his college course. The average health of the sophomore class is better than that of the freshman, and of the junior better than that of the sophomore, and of the senior best of all. This average is shown to come from an improvement in the physical condition of the individual student, and not from the dropping out of the course of those...
...somewhat curious commentary upon the positive statement issued by the N. Y. conference committee on athletics to the effect that a four mile race "endangers the health of the participants from over-exertion and heart strain," that the circular just issued by the University of Pennsylvania, which criticised this statement is signed by two eminent Doctors of Medicine, one of whom at least is of national reputation. And yet we have the authority of the Spirit of the Times for it that the "stated facts" of all these resolutions, "are indisputable" and their conclusions unavoidable." Dr. Mitchell and Dr. White...
...difference between shooting and the other sports practised at college is, that this one continues a means of enjoyment and health during the great part of a man's life, while on the other hand participation in nearly all the others ceases with a person's college days. MEMBER...
...seventh resolution forbids boat races longer than three miles. The important ground for this is the danger to health from a four-mile race. But if there is any such danger, any college which recognizes it will have to stop four-mile races whether other colleges do or not. If Harvard and Princeton believe that four miles is too long a course, and it can be proved by medical authority, Yale and other colleges will almost certainly have to come to the same conclusion...