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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Professor Francis Minot, of the Medical School, delivered an interesting lecture last night on the diseases to which professional men are subject and the means of preventing them. The health of such men is above the average, as their freedom from anxiety and overwork, combined with the usually good sanitary conditions of their surroundings, more than counterbalances the evils attendant on a sedentary life. As brain-workers always take less exercise than manual laborers, they are cones queenly more effected by hereditary tendencies to disease, and their indoor life exposes them particularly to the maladies caused by defective plumbing. Proper...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "The Health of Professional Men." | 2/22/1888 | See Source »

Last year, owing to the desire of the faculty no parade was held, but all attended a theatre in the evening and considerable disturbance was caused by their cheering. There seems to be a desire on the part of the faculty to prevent any public celebration of any college event and efforts are being made this year to stop the usual Washington's birthday ceremonies. Professor Brush has had interviews with the presidents of the Shelf junior and freshman classes in regard to the matter. It is his desire to prevent any disturbance at all, and meetings of the classes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Yale Faculty to Buy the Freshmen Off with a Holiday. | 2/6/1888 | See Source »

President Cleveland has accepted the invitation to attend Cornell commencement next June provided official duties now unforseen will not prevent...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/23/1888 | See Source »

...Young's. He is a man who is useful only in showing to the public the latest style of ulster or neck-wear. He is supposed to pass his examinations by means of assiduous "cramming" for several days before the examination, striving merely to get a mark which will prevent his getting "dropped." Few give us credit for the downright earnest work which is the rule here, not the exception. The men who spend their time in Boston (there are a few) are typical of but a small class. The majority of Harvard students are hard workers. We are aware...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/23/1888 | See Source »

...most generous one. A few years of contest between such teams and in such a spirit will so thoroughly convince every one of the value of the sport that nothing short of the most abject folly on the part of the younger players who take up the game can prevent its future being the brightest, because the most free from any professional or hippodroming element, of any of our pastimes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Foot-Ball. | 1/17/1888 | See Source »

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