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...trophy of the intercollegiate strength test competition this year a bronze statue of an athlete will be awarded. Candidates for the Harvard fifty must take their test before the April recess, each man being allowed two trials...
...Tyng '04, on Friday afternoon, in the presence of several witnesses, made an unofficial strength test which registered 2,226.4. This is considerably better than both the Harvard record of 1,869.5, made last year by C. G. Hall 1L., and the intercollegiate record of 1,940.9, made by R. W. Allis of the University of Minnesota. The individual tests registered as follows: lungs, 50; legs, 780; back, 410; right forearm, 95; left forearm, 85; chest and upper arms, 806.4; total...
...wish to hurt or in any way detract from the value of our annual race with Yale and am entirely willing to take the present risk of four miles, if a test of that length can be proved necessary for the best results. What I contend is, that a four mile test is not necessary, that we will lose by the change nothing of good which we now have, and that therefore, as I have today seen Dr. Brooks quoted, three miles will be a "desirable substitute," desirable because there is less danger...
...distance for sixes, was altogether too short a distance for eights. It was believed then that the preparation would be more thorough, and that the stroke would be slower and would be not only much less dangerous to participants, but that it would be a much more satisfactory test both of the endurance and rowing ability of the crews. The shorter distance which induced inadequacy of preparation and a rapid stroke had been condemned so much before 1876 that the change was thoroughly approved; and it is worthy of note that those who had had the experience of both distances...
...think the American college rowing men ought to have the stamina, and I believe they have it. To many people, it is a source of great humiliation that the Englishmen are so much superior to us Americans in contests involving endurance. Here, in rowing, we have the finest test of endurance that there is. We should be very slow to take away in the least from this feature of the race...