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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 25, 1921)
College Health Adviser Is Se curing Results. HARD TO CONVINCE SOME Gains Not Desired by Many Who Are Too Light. Dr. Bertha Stuart, women’s health ad . viscr, hopes that some day the Univer sity health program will be so well car ried out that the infirmary will be al most entirely unnecessary. Together with Miss Grace Robertson, health nurse, she is working for the betterment of the health of university women. “We are not the University ‘sick ser vice,’ ” Doctor Stuart said. “When the girls are sick, we send them to the in firmary.” However, Doctor Stuart is constantly on the look-out for methods which will keep the women well, rather than cure them when they become ill. She has worked with women for about twenty years and finds that one of the first pre requisites of a healthy physical condition is proper weight, and it is to this end that she has been spending most of her energy in the University. “You are about fifteen pounds under weight!” she will say to the “victim” who responds to the urgent little notes sent out by Miss Robertson. “But I’m as fat as I want to be al ready!” wails the patient. “I don’t want to gain!” "Don’t want to gain!” explains Dr. j Stuart. “Do you think those bones are pretty?” And then. Dr. Stuart tells from 10 to 20 girls each day why they should gain. The majority of cases brought to her attention are of malnutriWon—and, if Dr. Stuart is not a crank on the weight ques tion, she at least considers it of vital importance. j mere is a certain amount of weight, she will say, “that a person should have In order to have vitality and resistance to disease.” “But I feel all right—and I’m never Bick.” To this almost never failing state ment, Dr. Stuart smiles a knowing smile -—and tells the tale of the girl who was “never sick,” but who could not come back to school on account of illness. However, one particular patient is still unconvinced. “But I don’t want to bo fat!” she ob jects. “I don’t want to make you corpulent,” angles the Doctor, “but I want you to get enough weight for your height, de velop vitality and resistance to disease and fatigue." Then Doctor Stuart explains at length that while weight is not the only factor, it is ono of the chief ones, and that young women should all be storing up surplus energy for use later on in life. She prescribes “milk and rest” anil tells the patient to return in two weeks. “They aren’t all ns hard to convince as that,” she suid after this patient left, somewhat defiantly. This is just one instance of the many to which Doctor Stuart attends. She tries the diet and rest at first — and almost every women’s house on the cam pus has its “Better Babies” table. If no good effect is noted after a fair trial, theh activities are cut down and more stringent measures are applied. How ever, of the 100 or more girls treated last term, the gains ranged from two to 115 pounds in each case. During exam week. Doctor Stuart noted that from one-half to five pounds were lost, and many girls lost during Christmas vaca tion. 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No girl will be eligible to play on a house basketball team in the doughnut series unless she has played in four practice games. This is the ruling made by Miss Emma Waterman, women’s basketball coach, in regard to the series which will be started the first week in February. Practices are being held in the out door gymnasium at the following hours: Tuesday and Thursday, 3 o’clock; Wed nesday and Friday, 4 o’clock; Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday at a o’clock. Miss Waterman has charge of the prac tice hours. She says that special prac tices can be arranged for at other hours if desired. Doughnut baseball has been tried be fore. but this is the first trial of dough nut basketball. A suitable trophy, either a cup or a banner, will be provided by the Women’s Athletic Association to the winner of the contests. CHEMISTRY CLUB ELECTS SIX. Six students were elected to member ship at the last meeting of the Chem istry club. They are Meryl Deming, Myrtle Anderson. 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