Word: freshmen
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...results of this year's physical examinations of first-year men, including Freshmen and unclassified students, show the intelligence of an enlightened group of parents on the subject of health, according to Dr. Roger 1. Lee '02, Professor of Hygiene, who has been in charge of the examinations. Figures compiled at his office show that very few Freshmen have neglected teeth; that 37.2 per cent. wear glasses; that very few have such gross, uncorrected defects of the eye that they need the immediate attention of the oculist; and that 43.6 per cent. have already had their tonsils removed. Only four...
...rating of Freshmen from the stand point of bodily mechanics showed that 80 per cent, of the incoming class do not use their bodies well. In this test the physicians examined the men's feet, watched how they used them and studied also how the men stood and whether their statics proved satisfactory from a mechanical point of view. This year only 0.97 per cent. of the Freshmen were grouped in Class A as having a good mechanical use of the body; 14.8 per cent. fell in Class B as being fairly good in this respect; 49.3 per cent. were...
...found that 11.3 per cent. of the Freshmen and 10.2 per cent. of the Unclassified students could not swim; 1.3 per cent. of the Freshmen and 2.6 per cent of the Unclassified were color-blind; 22.6 per cent of the Freshmen and 68.9 per cent. of the Unclassified students had been vaccinated against typhoid; 4.5 per cent of the Freshmen and 1.1 per cent. of the Unclassified men had not been vaccinated against smallpox. Of the 191 Freshmen who wore glasses, 87 used them for reading, eight used them for distance, and 96 used them constantly...
...Freshmen, 9.5 had had their appendices taken out; 6.4 of the Unclassified men had had this operation...
...results of the physical examination of Freshmen ought to be interpreted as the final results of the physical condition of students at the completion of their preparatory school careers. Whatever defects are found should carry two suggestions: one, and the more important suggestion, prevention in the preparatory schools; and, two, possible correction in the college...