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...Mott Haven team is now hard at work, there being in all 206 candidates. They work in four squads and have about the same exercise as the other teams. They begin with the chest weights, practice hurdling at different heights, go through the dumb-bell drill, practice starting in the cage, and wind up with a short run. There are some very promising candidates and it seems as though the Harvard men should get a large majority of the novice events, as well as the handicaps, in the B. A. A. Meeting. Since the list of entries was published...
...will begin immediately after the mid-year. In the meantime the new candidates are practiced in stopping grounders and in starting. After this they run to the gymnasium, sometimes directly and sometimes taking longer distances, and end with dumb-bell exercise, varied, now and then, by work on the chest-weights. The men who are now in training are: Lake '92, Washburn, Fearing '93, from '94, Lowell, Linfield, Frothingham, Quigley, Harding, Paine, Hapgood, Hoag; from '95, Rogers, Whittemore, Heard, Manning...
...present there are three crews at work. They row half an hour each - one crew in the tank, the other two crews upon the weights - take a good run, and some light work with dumb-bells and chest weights. There are good men on the 2nd and 3d crews. Some of them may be expected to go to the first crew at any time. All will have a good chance to show what they can do. They will receive all possible attention from the 'varsity management, a thing almost unknown for some years past...
...comes here, he has no chance to learn anything. The natural effect is to-kill his interest. He does not like to make himself conspicuous and ridiculous on the floor in trying to get the knack of some simple little thing without help or direction. The unvaried dose of chest weights prescribed soon grows distasteful, and the new man finally either stays away from the gymnasium altogether or appears perhaps once a week from a sense of duty or the need of a bath...
...royally. But secret plots were discovered under the mask of his hospitality, and he was put to death by Harald. Wolf and the other son Grim were forced to leave Norway and sailed for Iceland. On the way, Wolf died, having requested that his body be placed in a chest and set afloat and also that Grim should settle wherever the chest was washed ashore. The request was followed out implicitly. Grim had also two sons, one of them the hero Egil. He was a precocious youth; a bit of poetry remains, which he is said to have written...