Word: vitals
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...blood is rushing more rapidly through the veins, the action of the heart is quicker and the energy developed is more intense. Care should be taken not to use too heavy dumb-bells and weights, as the good which would otherwise be derived is counterbalanced by the expenditure of vital energy and the general clogging up of the system. Suppose a man were to hold his arm in a horizontal position for fifteen minutes or half an hour, gradually the action becomes tedious and painful, and sharp pains go shooting through it. This is caused by the checking...
...extent, upon the condition and requirements of a person; if, for instance, one was troubled by sleeplessness, the proper time was in the evening, but the hour of the day when the average person can best exercise to advantage is about the middle of the forenoon, as then the vital energy is at its height and more work can be done, both physical and mental. The next best time for exercising is the afternoon, from four to six, and the worst time of all, the early morning before breakfast. The custom in the rural districts of rising about four...
...since 1872, the ground covered in the department of political economy has remained practically unchanged. This is not as it should be, for Harvard, with the reputation which it has for originality and energy, should be the most active of all colleges in encouraging a comprehensive study of the vital topics of the day. Why heavy expense should be incurred in the encouragement of the study by a handful of men of Chinese, Sanskrit, Arabic and the Zend, when the college is unable to support more than one professor in political science, is hard to explain, especially as the interest...
...settled before Yale's challenge is officially and definitely settled. The simple gist of the matter is, that Harvard does not wish to bind herself to row a race until she knows definitely and finally what the conditions and arrangements are, especially when the arrangements in dispute are so vital as they are in this case. The race, we hope, will be rowed. It is only very lately that there has seemed to be any doubt of its being rowed. It is to be hoped that an amicable adjustment of the points in dispute will soon be reached...
ITHACA, Nov. 13, 1882. The spirit of progress is still the vital principle at Cornell. Animated by this spirit, which has pushed our youthful university into the front rank of American colleges and forced them to needed reforms, and fearing that it was growing dormant in the breasts of the authorities, certain public-spirited individuals recently demolished a wooden bridge leading to the campus. This action was expected to bring forcibly before the proper persons the fact that the bridge was not in keeping with the other property of the university. Like many radical reforms, this did not meet with...