Word: breasted
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...means do not play the first game at New Haven. Do not be mastered by the superstition so common here, that any one in blue stockings, with a large "Y" on his breast, is invincible. '85 has a great opportunity before her to make a reputation, and we all hope she will make the most of it. May she prove that Harvard is not always to be defeated in her freshman games with Yale...
...broken head is soon remedied, but a cold leaden pill or a cruel thrust of a knife has cost many a life, and any one who resorts to these weapons, excepting when his life is in danger, is a contemptible coward, without a spark of manhood in his breast, and a disgrace to the Anglo-Saxon race. The accomplishment of boxing should be a part of every American boy's education, as much as fencing or quarter-staff was in the days of "Bluff King...
...occupations and circumstances which tend to produce them. Consumption is, however, easy to prevent by a course of physical exercise. In Harvard, only one man out of three has a perfect chest, the principal imperfections being a flatness on the upper part and depression at the base of the breast bone, compression of the sides being prevalent. He explained the physiology of the respiratory organs and their action under exercise. The action of rowing was then explained in connection with the physiological structure of the lungs and heart. The exercise of filling and inflating the chest to the utmost...
There is an idea prevailing in the breast of many men who are fond of "fun" of a more boisterous kind, that a Cambridge policeman is a pitiless avenger of students' escapades, whose only desire is to lie around corners and get students into trouble. If such persons would call upon the veteran policeman whom we found in the station the other day when we were investigating the "small-pox scare," all of his fears of this monster would be dispelled, and he would find him a pleasant, rugged-faced man, glad to talk on subjects best suited...
Brought to my breast a blessed beam of gladness