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...greater evil of consumption. Alcohol, syphilis, want of pure air and good food are all productive of this terrible disease. Inherited consumption can often be cured by proper habits and regulations of life. When anyone is told to take fresh air for his consumptive troubles, he ought to keep out of doors all the time. We ought to make ourselves stronger, that our children may be started in life with better health and stronger bodies...
...finish weak. He swings out from his oar at the finish. No. 5 gets a weak finish and does not sit up well. He lets his outside shoulder swing forward on the full reach, and is apt to be careless in his rowing. He swings out. No. 4 keeps his arms bent even on the full reach. He does not get his shoulders on at all at the beginning of the stroke, letting his slide get ahead of his shoulders. He swings out. No. 3 starts forward too slowly and gets a jerky finish. He does not use his shoulders...
...courses. This is largely a matter of opinion. What makes one course harder than another? It is simply a man's inadaptibility to that course. What is hard for one man is easy for another and conversely. If a man wishes to win honors and fails to keep pace with his competitors, instead of complaining about the course, he should seek more fruitful fields for his labor...
Stroke swings back too far. On the full reach he swings down after he has slid out, letting his outside shoulder come forward. No. 7 starts fairly quickly, but he does not keep his slide under control and rushes down. He makes a break in the middle of his stroke after his legs are straight and before he pulls his hands in, so that there is no power in the middle of his stroke. No. 6 is slow in starting for ward. he lets his legs wobble, and does not sit up to his work. He hurries his finish...
...perquisites or wages, emphasizing their demands, when he was disposed to be less generous than they wished, by furnishing such poor food at the table presided over by him that the guests rose in rebellion. He was forbidden to talk to any of the guests and ordered to keep in the back part of the house. It is to be presumed that next season he will seek some more congenial field, perhaps a Maine hay field. Then again, to form the habit of the lackey by living on fees, is mentally if not financially belittling, unless one is bent...