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Show Weariness of Coeds Becomes Concern Of Health Officials NEW YORK. The weary coed is a major concern to university and college health officials. In an interview, inter-view, Dr. Ruth E. Boynton, of Cornell, Cor-nell, and Dr. Ruth Collings, Woman's Wom-an's College of the University of North Carolina, indicated that fatigue fa-tigue Is the most common complaint com-plaint among college women. Only infrequently, they said, could the condition be traced to a physical cause. In most Cases, the girls are tired from the sheer weight of trying to do too much. Social pressures and the press of extra - curricular activities were held largely responsible. "Academic "Acade-mic obligations in themselves," said Dr. Collings, "are seldom heavy enough to cause such disturbances." disturb-ances." Both doctors, confirming the conclusions con-clusions of a conference panel on women's health, felt that a psychological psycho-logical approach rather than a med-. med-. ical was indicated. Wise counseling, they said, can overcome the false drives which "force college girls into trying too hard to be popular or to be campus activity leaders." Next most prevalent fatigue, they indicated, are the problems of underweight un-derweight and overweight. Underweight, Under-weight, they attributed the motivations motiva-tions similar to those which cause fatigue an over-expenditure of energy en-ergy and a drive to remain "fashionably "fash-ionably svelte." Overweight is frequently fre-quently caused by overeating to compensate for personal satisfactions satisfac-tions which are lacking. Here again, the psychological approach was stressed. - Ailments which formerly hospitalized hospital-ized students, they reported, are generally on the decrease in campuses cam-puses throughout the country, as the result of the Introduction of penicillin and other anti-biotics. |