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During the summer several improvements have been made at Memorial. A new ice-chest has been put in at a cost of $400, and a new broiler-added so that the steward is no longer obliged to bake the steaks as was sometimes done...
...stroke consists of a firm catch, using the back and shoving with the legs, while the arms are not used in the first part, being kept straight until the hands are above the knees. Then the arms are bent and the oar-handle drawn well in to the chest, when the hands are quickly shot out over the knees, and the body follows in the long slow recovery. The swing is of fair length, and a great point is for the men to swing up and 'get their backs in' on the beginning of the stroke before they use their...
...some very interesting figures. The class is a very small one, graduating only thirty-nine men. The class is the youngest that has graduated since '75, the average age being 22 years, 5 months, 4 days. The average height is 5 feet 9 1/2 inches; weight, 154 2/3 lbs.; chest, 37 inches; forearm, 10 7/8; biceps, 12 1/4; calf, 14; hips, 33; thigh, 21; shoulder breadth, 17; hat, 7; shoe, 7; glove, 7 1/2. Eleven have chosen law; 8, business; 6, ministry; 3, teaching; 2, medicine; 1, science; 1, manufacturing and 12 are on the fence. The oldest...
...subject of Dr. Sargent's lecture yesterday was "How to Develop the Chest." He began by giving statistics of the death proportion from consumption and tubercular diseases, arising from an imperfect development of the lungs and heart. Such affections are often inherited, or result from occupations and circumstances which tend to produce them. Consumption is, however, easy to prevent by a course of physical exercise. In Harvard, only one man out of three has a perfect chest, the principal imperfections being a flatness on the upper part and depression at the base of the breast bone, compression of the sides...
...Physical Training." Special subject: "How to Develop the Chest." Professor Sargent. Hemenway Gymnasium meeting-room...