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...physical training than is given to it at the present day. Schools, colleges and Christian Associations are building costly gymnasium, while athletic clubs are forming in many of our towns and cities. With the representatives of our institutions of learning, and with a portion of the intelligent public, the object of the encouragement given to athletics is to counteract the enervating tendency of the times, and to improve the health, strength, and vigor of our youth...
...making excellence in the achievement the primary object of athletic exercises, we rob them of half their value in various ways...
...unnecessary to go further. The object has been merely to show that all sports, pursued as ends in themselves, are necessarily limited to a very small class, and constantly tend to degenerate...
...parallel bars. The tests were limited to the back, legs, chest, upper arm and fore-arm. Before summing up the result of the arm of chest tests, the number of times that a person had lifted himself either way was multiplied into a tenth of his weight; the object being to credit each person with the number of foot pounds lifted, rather than to reckon the number of times the body was raised without respect to its weight. A tenth of the weight was taken in order to reduce the number of figures that would result from the multiplication...
...rule shall be suspended if 20 men object...