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Changes have recently been made in the intercollegiate strength test, and hereafter the seven exercises to be used in computing the total strength of an individual, will be as follows...
...Strength of back, tested by pulling on a dynamometer, with legs straight; 2, strength of legs, tested by pulling on a dynamometer by straightening the legs; 3 and 4, strength of right and left fore-arm, tested by squeezing a spring dynamometer with the hands; 5, strength of lungs, tested by blowing into a spirometer; 6, strength of upper arms, biceps, and chest, tested by raising and lowering the body between the parallel bars as often as possible; 7, strength of upper arms, triceps, and back, tested by chinning on the horizontal bar as many times as possible. The strength...
...Society also voted some modifications of the strength test which will be made public later. Dr. D. A. Sargent represented the University...
...most satisfactory test for a given number of the Lampoon is a question whether it contains much, or anything, which will be apt to serve, in years to come, as a pleasant reminder of college days. It is only as a record of student life at Harvard that the Lampoon is worth while. Judged by this standard, the last number, through not extraordinary, agreeably justifies its existence. The pictures, for all their rather crude drawing, are good-natured and tolerably local. The text-Lampoon text has always consisted principally of "filling"-contains a divertingly new interpretation of a familiar phrase...
...game with the United States Military Academy, at West Point this afternoon, will give the first thorough test of the University eleven's strength. Today the team will meet an eleven of weight almost equal to its own, composed of men of considerable football experience. The West Point team, with the exception of four men, is the same as the one which last year held Harvard down to a score of 14 to 6; on the other hand, only four of last year's University eleven will be in today's game...