Word: chests
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Hubner, anxious to air his familiarity with English, upon his knowledge and mastery of which he prided himself not a little, exclaimed, 'I am much in misery-I have a big pain in my trunk.' He meant to say, 'I am quite sick, having a severe pain in my chest.' Probably the modern senior's Greek and Latin are about as 'sick' as Prof. Hubner...
...nine are now using the chest weights, and will also take up some of the exercises devised by M. Lathrop...
...should swing forward and back with a hip, and not a back movement. Eight years ago Harvard crews used to row with a bent back. In considering the advisability of a change during the captaincy of our late coach, it was argued that a straight back, and an active chest allowed free and easier breathing, an important consideration in a race of from twenty to twenty-five minutes. Further, it was thought that an "eight" composed of amateur college oarsmen could attain greater precision with a long steady hip movement than with an irregular back movement...
...tiresome. It is unnecessary work which often severely taxes an oarsman's strength. Meanwhile the arms are kept perfectly straight, (not rigid, for rigidity tires the muscles), until the body stops to reverse its motion just back of the perpendicular. At this point the arms are drawn to the chest at the rate at which the body has been swinging back; but, as soon as they touch the chest, they are shot out forward and are again held perfectly straight. This arm movement is called the "shoot" because it is rapidly executed. A quick shoot is necessary; first...
This year Captain Meikleham proposes that the crew men shall go through a regular course of exercises every day under the new gymnasium instructor, Mr. Cuthbertson, including back weights, chest weights, dumbbells and running, besides the regular twenty minute row on the machines. If Cowles, who stroked '83's 'Varsity crew, can be prevailed upon to stroke this year, we ought, with the rowing material now in college, to be able to send an eight to New London next June which would be a credit both to themselves and to Columbia.-[Spectator...