Word: human
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...following concerning some causes of heart disease, and the evils caused by the use of tobacco, we clip from the N. Y. Tribune. "There is an increase of heart trouble, as there always would be in feverish and hurried lives. Many lives are intense enough to strain the whole human system, and increase and hurry the circulation and finally weaken it. A prominent English physician has written his experience in the matter of athletic exercises. Young men, boys who are not fully developed, strain their young muscles, hurry their breathing and circulation, whether by athletic games or rowing. Of those...
...student can take them all in the four years." It would certainly be a very foolish person who would receive such an idea. Further: "The idea that a certain amount of information and a certain familiarity with the lines of thought in each of the leading departments of human knowledge is essential to an education, is wholly ignored." We will venture to state as to this that the preparation required to enter Harvard and the prescribed work of the freshman year amount probably to as thorough a grounding in the leading departments of human knowledge, as the entire course...
...very interesting and instructive. The first lecture, given yesterday afternoon, was on "Physical Examinations," and will be followed by others on "Exercise," "Diet," "Bathing," "The Uses of the Gymnasium," and "The Value of Special Exercises." The lectures will be very practical, and will be illustrated by charts and the human figure. We advise all to attend...
...following, from the Rochester Democrat, was called forth by the recent acts of the Princeton freshmen: "These freaks of rowdyism in college undergraduates have been witnessed for centuries and looked upon as almost inexplicable by the older portion of humanity, even by those who once participated in them. Taken individually and in broad daylight, a stripling who attends college seems harmless enough. Look at this slight young man in his room, bending lazily or earnestly over his books as the case may be. He appears commonplace, quiet and orderly. But few would suspect the latent wealth of stone-throwing, howling...
Deniel Pratt will lecture on "Human AEstheticism" this evening, at 581 Washington street. The general says he can knock Oscar "higher than a kite...