Word: sicking
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Many of these aspirants for learning and free-lunch have honest ideas of what work is, and so, by ruining their health in study, give occasion for the German equivalent of a "fresh-air" charity. This we find under the name of "Sick Student's Relief Association." which sends large numbers of men to the health resorts and other recruiting places...
...CRIMSON received a communication yesterday, written by a member of the class which has recently entered college. The writer urges the college to at once take measures to have a proper infirmary provided for the use of its dangerously sick students. We had thought that one of the first tasks of the freshman was to learn the names and uses of the various college buildings. From this communication, however, it seems that some of the undergraduates are not as yet thoroughly posted. To end the matter, then, we would remark that the yellow and white edifice on the northern side...
...Herron, Peabody, '87; Fargo, Garrison, Lund, and Thayer, '88. The question of the celebration of athletic victories was fully discussed. The members of the faculty explained the trying position in which they were placed by the many just complaints from people at large in Cambridge, and especially from the sick, and also from the feeling prevalent among many graduates that these celebrations were signs of the demoralization due to the new ideas of government at Harvard. They expressed a willingness to leave the entire subject to the students, if it could be checked in that way. The students were unanimous...
...esprit de corps' which is so essential to success, and which it is the duty of the captain of every organization to seek to attain among his men. The men at New London are always worked as hard as the coach thinks that they will stand without making them sick, and it is very necessary that they should be cool and comfortable when off duty and resting, therefore they are provided with these flannel coats and trousers which are thinner, and cooler than the ordinary summer coat and trousers...
...into the dead cart, while the frivolous crowd solemnly bare their heads; and at last it finds a resting place on a rugged couch behind the long, low window-and here we are on the other side of the window, gazing at it with a terrible feeling of sick fascination. Horrible! We turn away in unutterable disgust and with white lips seek the free air of Heaven once more...