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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...author is Dr. Wilder, Professor of Physiology at Cornell, and he treats of his subject in a thoroughly simple and practical way which makes the book particularly valuable. The work is divided into eleven general heads,-the Choice of Room, Food and Drink, Ventilation and Heating, D othing, Bathing Sleep, Exercise, Methods of Study, Cae of the Eyes, Stimulants and Narcotics and Hygenie and Morality. The whole is prepared with a few "maxims and general remarks" which are interesting and significant...
...sponge or shower bath is refreshing, but it 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...
...debarred by inferior physique from engaging in the muscular sports, though it must be well understood that no man can hope to become a good shot unless his muscles have been well hardened by exercise, and his nerve got into good form by steady living and sufficient sleep...
...semi-centennial, and who knows but that Governor Butler, who years ago erected one of the finest monuments in Greenwood Cemetery, might reward the courtesy of an LL. D. from the New York University with a handsome gift to the institution so near which he is to sleep the last long sleep? It would not be creditable to bestow the honor from a mercenary motive, but then Governor Butler is a scholarly man, and he himself has recently remarked that he is probably one of three or four of the Massachusetts governors who have been able to translate a Harvard...
...semi-centennial, and who knows but that Governor Butler, who years ago erected one of the finest monuments in Greenwood Cemetery, might reward the courtesy of a LL. D. from the New York university with a handsome gift to the institution, so near which he is to sleep the last long sleep? It would not be creditable to bestow the honor from a mercenary motive, but then Governor Butler is a scholarly man, and he himself has recently remarked that he is probably one of three or four of the Massachusetts governors who have been able to translate a Harvard...