Word: healthiest
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...ascribed to the greater attention given in intelligent families to the care of the body. This brings again to mind the thought that the higher our education the better should be the care which we learn to take of our bodily organs, since when they are in the healthiest condition they do us the best service. It is superfluous, however, to give to persons possessed of even the moderate wisdom of college students reasons why we should attend to the laws of health. As a theory, the necessity of caring for our bodies is admitted by all; but Theory does...
...dining, it is urged that "it is conducive to neither health, comfort, nor convenience." The first clause of this statement - that the present dinner-hour is not conducive to health - we positively deny. It is, we believe, a fact, and supported by all writers on hygiene, that the healthiest time for the heartiest meal of the day is near noon, not later, at least, than three o'clock. It has been said, however, that this advantage of the present hour of dinner is modified by the necessity of recitation and study immediately preceding and following dinner. This...