Word: forms
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...benefited by it. Carriage riding as a passive exercise is good for one of fine physique and good former physical development. Horseback riding is an excellent exercise for circulation, as very little of the nervous energy is being expended. For a person who uses the mind excessively, however, this form of exercise is not good, as it 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...
...form in which this effort in behalf of women's education has been started and is likely to be continued, it stirs no prejudice, excites no opposition, involves no change of policy for the university. The students of the Annex manifest no desire for co-education. The element of competition with men does not enter into their aims. They simply want the best education they can get, and they seek it at Harvard because the means to that end exist there...
...team seems to be pulling in poorer form than the others...
...England colleges as are within reasonable distances of each other, and desires an expression of opinion on this point from the different colleges. We cannot say what stand our Tennis Association will take on this question, but last year we believe it made an attempt to form an inter-collegiate association, or at least to get up a tournament between several of the colleges. The proposal was not, however, favorably received by some of the colleges and the plan was therefore given...
...granted. The only reason given for this is that "the president likes to have the chapel filled up." This restriction, which forces girls of every shade of belief to spend their time ostensibly given them for personal religious culture in listening to expositions of the tenets of that form of religious opinion, "whose bulwarks are the Trinity on one side and hell on the other," is held by Vassar students to be their one great grievance in the matter of "religious discipline." Daily chapel is not, on the whole, regarded as an infliction. Vassar does not object to the quantity...