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...should be taken not to use too heavy dumb-bells and weights, as the good which would otherwise be derived is counterbalanced by the expenditure of vital energy and the general clogging up of the system. Suppose a man were to hold his arm in a horizontal position for fifteen minutes or half an hour, gradually the action becomes tedious and painful, and sharp pains go shooting through it. This is caused by the checking of the circulation, and although the effort made is ten times that of raising a dumb-bell, still the tissue lost in the first movement...
Members of History 13 will be allowed fifteen minutes before the examination begins today, in order to read over the examination paper...
...utmost courtesy of our hosts and the corresponding gratitude of our teams. McGill did not neglect a single opportunity to do our men a favor or to show their hearty good will. In '76 Harvard twice defeated an "all Canada" team, the last time playing in Montreal with fifteen, making a score of two goals and four touchdowns to nothing. A few days after, they met the McGill team and also defeated them, one goal to nothing...
...McGill fifteen visited Cambridge and were defeated by Harvard by a score of one goal and three touchdowns to nothing. In 1879 the Brittania team came down to Boston, and, after a rather exciting contest, were defeated, two goals and one touchdown to nothing. A few days later, Harvard played a return match with them in Montreal, scoring one goal to nothing for Brittania. The following Monday, in spite of snow and extremely disagreeable weather, a game was commenced with the McGill team, but, at the close of the first half, both teams were ready to withdraw and the game...
...steamer Cimbria, which left Hamburg for Havre and New York on the 16th inst., came into collision with the British steamer Sultan twelve miles southwest of Borkum, and sunk in fifteen minutes. Between three and four hundred lives were lost...