Word: weaknesses
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...energy and its result, nervous exhaustion, are evils put by our modern Solomons on the shoulders of young people. That cases of nervous disease occur even among young children, as a direct effect of our present school system, is known to every physician. People wonder at the increase of weak eyes, of brain disease, and insanity among us, and do not see the potent cause...
Harvard men are generally strong in the legs, the extensor, flexor, and calf being as a rule well developed; and there is only about one case in ten where special exercise for the legs has been ordered. The usual weak point is the upper portion of the chest, and the neck, which in many instances is bent forward. This is generally the result of continual stooping over a desk, as many students have had little attention paid to their physical development while their bones were easily bent from their normal state. There have been no prevailing weaknesses, such as diseases...
...Dartmouth comprise the greater part of the paper. It is successful as a newspaper. The Williams Athen&aeum contains all the departments of the ideal college paper, and all are good. More light articles would brighten it up. The Princetonian is earnest and gentlemanly. The Bowdoin Orient is weak in editorials, but full of news. The Oberlin Review has thoughtful editorials, and occasionally publishes excellent literary articles. The Tuftonian presents an extremely neat appearance, and is interesting, with the exception of some of its longer articles. The Beacon asks...
...football proper. . . . Yale's reputation is universally known and recognized. The opinions of all who have had any dealings with her are identical, and we are sorry that it is not better. . . . The attempt to lay everything to the fact of playing with fifteen instead of eleven is decidedly weak. It seems queer that it happens only when the Yale fifteen are concerned. It does not lie in the number, but in the men themselves. It requires only a little common-sense to see this. Eleven men could make the game fully as unpleasant as fifteen. We need only quote...