Word: physician
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...seems to be the popular impression that there is something in any college education, and particularly in a Harvard education, which prevents a graduate from becoming a successful editor. He may become a brilliant lawyer, a skilful physician, or a successful business man; but he can never become a great journalist...
Undoubtedly the prime requisites of a good editor are coolness, quickness, and impartiality; yet are not these qualities also required to make a man a good lawyer, physician, or business man? But behind the coolness and the quickness and the impartiality there must be some special knowledge, there must be a something on which these good qualities work. The aim of this article is to show that the training which one, by a selection of courses with journalism in view, may obtain at this College can be made to apply directly on one's future work...
...University crew have met with a great loss in their stroke, Mr. A. P. Loring, '78, who has been compelled to give up rowing for the present by advice of his physician...
...Saturday morning; and it was only at a late hour on Sunday evening that friends who were with him became convinced that he was in serious danger. He himself did not then appreciate his condition, perhaps even he never appreciated it; and it was against his wishes that a physician was at last summoned. Everything that friends and physicians could do for him was done; but weakness and disease had taken too strong a hold upon his frame to be dislodged...
...defaced by so superannuated an Americanism as the enforcement (to the extent of the Faculty's power) of total abstinence? Our climate may not make ale or cider necessary for all, but illness certainly makes it helpful to some, and a friend of ours was advised by a physician on the Corporation to take, as the very best tonic, a pint of porter daily at dinner. At the Hall this is forbidden. We would trouble no man's conscience, and while there are among us those brought up in the "most straitest sect of the Puritans," we shall not lack...