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...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. The girths of the head, chest, (natural and inflated), waist, thighs, uppers and fore-arms, these being the parts tested were summed up. The difference between this amount, which was taken to represent the potential strength and the amount found to represent the actual strength, was termed the condition...
...Harvard has a heavier and perhaps a more muscular crew than Yale. Harvard always sends a fine eight to the Thames. The men are rowing daily, stripped to the waist, and their bodies are as brown as a nut from exposure. Then, too, Harvard men always have good coaching. Whether they win or not, no one can say that there has been a Harvard crew for years that has not rowed handsomely. I saw this year's Harvard eight on Charles river one day last week. They were returning from a long and arduous practice pull, and, although they were...
...lively stroke which was responded to in fair form by the other men in the boat. The men rowed down to the first bridge, and then returned, continuing their course up-stream. As they passed the boat-house the individual faults showed glaringly. There was bad time in the waist, while the men in the bow seemed to have no conception of how to turn their oars on the recover. No one but stroke and seven pulled his oar through to the finish. As '89 disappeared up the river '88 was seen coming through the lower bridge. There was evidenced...
...formed a very pleasing feature of the show. Their leading transparency informed the public that they were "drumming for clients." Their other transparencies, though all based on legal catches were exceedingly clever. One represented "Circuity of Action," as exemplified by a corporal's arm and a trim maiden's waist; its reverse, by a diagram of a gentleman birching a boy, gave a good illustration of "Quarter Merited." A second displayed a picture of Austin Hall. A third had cartoons of a gory scalp, labeled, "The First Fee," a Puritan demolishing an Indian, thereby illustrating the "Ancient Action of Conversion...
...half the Stevens rush-line played a much better game than ours did. They were nowhere near as heavy, so that they had very hard work to block Harvard and stop our men from breaking through; but their tackling was good, every man ducking down and going for the waist. Our rush-line, as has been said before, tackled abominably and played a loose game, Butler being the only man who played anything like a good game, and even his playing was not up to the mark...