Word: sleeping
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Herbert Jaques '11 talked on running last night at the Varsity Club, giving a comprehensive exposition of "the details that build up a track team." Among the topics that he treated are equipment, training as regards food, sleep, bathing, and light exercise, co-operation with the coach and with team-mates, running form and racing...
Equipment should be perfectly adapted to the individual and his event even in the most insignificant details. Substantial, tissue building, easily-digested foods were recommended and a warning was given against over-eating. Proper training demands plenty of sleep and avoidance of extreme heat or cold in bathing. Exercises should aim to develop flexible muscles and those specially needed in particular events...
...raise funds for the erection of a building similar to those in Norfolk, Va., and Newport, R. I., which have in the neighborhood of from 150 to 225 separate bedrooms. It is estimated that if such a building were available in Boston at least 40,000 sailors would sleep in it each year. In Brooklyn, where the building is about twice the size of the one needed in Boston, the sailors themselves pay 80 per cent of the cost of operation and over 100,000 men slept in it during 1914. Nearly 300 men are turned away nightly while...
...cannot last forever. Come, give us a hand before it is too late. If you don't you will regret it all the rest of your life. And when your children say: "Daddy, what did you do in the great war? Surely Wilson did not lull your conscience to sleep" what will...
...month of preparation has now come to every man. Even the most slothful blessed with an average college man's intelligence may yet retrieve himself by diligent work. Almost without exception men will decide to do as they have done, the diligent will increase their diligence, the idlers will sleep. For the latter, hopeless as the warning is, it is well to advise that the mills of the gods, however slow, grind exceeding small...