Word: wilderness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Wilder D. Bancroft, '88, has been elected a regular editor of the CRIMSON, and Mr. John M. Merriam, '86, President...
...Wilder is probably the oldest undergraduate in the world. He entered the University of Vermont with the class of '32, but was compelled to leave on account of ill health. He has recently entered '85 in that institution, and hopes to take his degree next June.-[Yale News...
...tennis. In a good game all teh players except the pitcher, catcher and striker are inactive most of the time. The more skillful the game, the less exercise it furnishes. If base ball is to be played for exercise, we must encourage poor playing. The slower the pitching, the wilder the throwing, and the more frequent the muffing, with consequent increase of batting, base running and muddling, the better will the game be adapted for that purpose...
...breakfast Dr. Wilder says that it should be the principal meal, and he recommends lunch in the middle of the day and dinner at night. "Breakfast," he says, "should always include oatmeal, mush, cracked wheat, or some similar article, with plenty of meat.' Then come some remarks on the necessity for "regularity in the action of the bowels" with advice in case of disorder in those organs...
...should be taken in a warm room, and only when the skin is well reddened by subsequent rubbing." A soap and warm water bath should be taken at least once a week. The student should always have at least eight hours sleep, and if any is lost, Dr. Wilder says it should be made up "no matter what other things have to give place." The student he says "should aim to spend the whole forenoon in study. Recreation should be taken in the afternoon if possible and the evenings until ten o'clock may be given to study." The following...