Word: overworked
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Morris, '85, who has been studying in Cambridge for the degree of A. M. has been obliged to leave college owing to overwork...
...popular book, such as "The Student Life at Harvard," and then imagine that all young men here follow the course of its hero. Others will read the life of some famous graduate, and from this will be led to believe that all students, in their thirst for knowledge, overwork themselves, and pass through such a course of discipline and self denial...
Nervous System. - Anatomy and physiology. Influence over whole body. Increase of diseases of nervous system in modern life. Mental overwork. Diseases of nervous systems due to neglect of personal hygiene. Sleep and its derangements, worry, emotions, passions...
Physical Exercise. - Advantages and dangers of athletic sports. Overwork...
...daily routine of the Oxford undergraduates is not calculated to produce exhaustion from overwork, although the hard-working student of course can easily find enough to occupy him all the time in an institution which possesses such opportunities for learning as does Oxford. All the lectures are given in the morning, and the afternoon and evening are free to the student. It is seen from this that the amount of time devoted absolutely to work is not very large, and as the length of each term is eight weeks, and vacation, all told, amounts to six months each year...