Word: strengthened
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...existence it has a strong one ; and if the old society cannot gain enough energy to successfully prosecute its work, let a new one be formed that can. No society could have a better purpose and aim than such a one, but it must use every guard lest it strengthen rather than destroy the evil of drinking here by bringing ridicule upon itself...
...been proposed that the Amateur Athlete be appointed the official organ of the Inter-collegiate as well as of the National associations, and this proposition will doubtless be adopted. To strengthen the connection between this paper and the colleges. Mr. B. W. Mclntosh of Princeton, secretary of the I. C. A. A., has been secured as an editorial contributor. College men are especially appealed to for its support...
...only in case of unavoidable circumstances. Rules were adopted for supplying places made vacant by the removal of players injured during the game. It is to be hoped that these rules will be effectual in preventing any abuses from creeping into the game, and that they will tend to strengthen its already increasing popularity...
...produces nervousness. Swimming is, without exception, one of the finest of all physical exercises. It develops especially the lower portion of the chest, the legs and arms. Running, at a regular and fixed pace; boxing, to teach one to keep the temper under adverse circumstances; rowing, and canoeing, to strengthen the upper part of the thorax and chest, are useful. The benefit to be derived from regular practice in a gymnasium, by which the mind and nerve-centres are so trained that they have a certain amount of control over the body, and while the muscles may give out, this...
...great was the disappointment when Professor Holmes was transferred to the Supreme Bench. Judge Holmes is himself a good type of the class of lawyers Harvard seeks to give the country, and, so far as the resources here outlined can accomplish that end, he is eminently well qualified to strengthen and ennoble the profession in the eyes of the world...