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Besides rowing in the tank the candidates will exercise on the chest-weights, with Indian clubs and dumb-bells, and take a short run each...
...soon as the winter vacation was over, the candidates began to train regularly in the gymnasium. Three or four hundred strokes on the machines, a little light dumb-bell exercise and a short run up North avenue constituting the regular daily exercise. During the winter, Hanlan, the champion oarsman, visited the gymnasium and seemed very much interested in the work of the crew. He made several comments upon the rowing which were, of course, of great...
...succeed at whatever cost which we find to our surprise in the undergraduates of the present day, would we act so very differently after all? Would we not be charmed as of old by big, useless muscles in the men of our college class who practice daily at the dumb-bells, and prefer unwieldy giants to smaller men with muscles less startling but far greater will-power to punish themselves in the contest? And when it came to preparations for a boat-race against a college with which rivalry, if not exactly deadly, was a tradition of long standing, would...
Further, "James" inquires how the committee learned there was going to be a "disturbance." Why, bless your "faithful" heart, "James," the Committee would have been deaf, dumb and blind, if the "wars and rumors of wars" all day prevalent had not reached them. Would any other society, similarly threatened, have failed to take measures to protect itself...
...their athletes It is only very occasionally that any of the classical historians relate details, and some of these are obviously incorrect. For instance, it is recorded that the Grecian Phallos, with the aid of the "Halteeres" leaped a distance of 55 feet. "Halteeres" were something similar, to our dumb bells, which the Greeks held in their hands while leaping. They put their hands back, and, swinging them forward with a sudden motion, took the leap. There is no doubt thert use enabled them to jump further than they could have done without them. This has been proved by experience...