Word: backed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...improving 'the functional capacity of heart and lungs and stimulating the nervous system.' It makes non-combative men self-reliant and self-respectful. We might add to the professor's statement that boxing brings a large number of muscles into play, and is a good strengthener of the arms, back, and, above all, the legs; that it deepens the chest and strengthens in only a less degree the abdominal muscles...
...crew are 24 in number and are working daily under the guidance of Gill, '89. The regular routine consists of a short run when the weather permits, work on the chest weights, dumbbells and Indian clubs and such movements of the body as will strengthen the muscles of the back and stomach and rowing on the hydraulic. The men are unusually light and as yet no very good candidates have been developed: The men and their weights are as follows: Isham, 163, Oastler, 156; Dean, 148; Aiken, 163; Coates, 155; Chadwick, 162; Corson, 148; Moody, 147; Treadwell, 147; Judson...
Dudley, the former quarter-back on the 'Varsity eleven, will enter the Law School next fall. He has been very successful as gymnasium director at Exeter this year...
...lighter vein than the others. The hero, a scheming politician, goes to the convention at Saratoga, and, at the time when his presence is most needed to strengthen his chance for nomination, yields to the fascinations of a fair conspirator and goes off on an excursion, only to came back too late and find that his rival has secured the coveted prize. The story is fairly well written, but the plot is by no means...
...result of the year it is evident that foot-ball has taken a higher standing. It tends constantly towards hard, cool, individual play on the part of every man, the whole centered in the field captain or quarter-back. Princeton was not weaker than in previous years, but the others were stronger. Her eleven played their usual strong, well-practiced game, but the individual men with two or three exceptions were not equal to her opponents. Yale, as she always does, sent a team into the field with a dogged determination to win, and as always they played a magnificent...