Word: chests
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...training in the gymnasium, under Capt. Burnett. On Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, work is confined to practice in the cage, the men going in from 3 to 5 o'clock in the two former days, and at 2 o'clock on Saturday. On Monday, Wednesday and Friday, the chest weights and running track are brought into requisition for the hour, from...
...devoted to base-ball practice in the cage, the candidates being formed into two squads, one of which goes in at two, the other at three, and both of which are under the immediate supervision of Capt. Crocker. At four o'clock every afternoon both squads go through the chest weights, run on the gymnasium track, etc. Following is the list of candidates: Messrs. H. T. Allen, '86; Appleton, '84; Beaman, '85; Crocker, '85 (capt.); Follansbee, '85; A. Hamlin, '84; Hoyt, '85; Keep, '84; Lovering, '84; Lowell, '83; Phillips, '86; Smyth, '83; J. A. White, '84; S. E. Winslow...
...should be retained by the body of students. It is now one of the rules of the gymnasium that regularly organized clubs shall at all times have the right of using the apparatus to the exclusion of individuals. This rule is naturally defective to a great extent regarding the chest-weights, and every afternoon after four o'clock it is almost impossible for one who is not fortunate enough to be trying for some crew or nine to get a chance to exercise upon the weights. The university crew and nine should undoubtedly have the right to use the weights...
...done is light in comparison with what will be required after the mid-years. At present the crew content themselves with a short pull of about three hundred strokes and a run of half a mile and back up the avenue, beside going through the first course on the chest weights. This amount of work will be gradually increased until the semis are over, when the crew will be ready to settle down to the really hard work of the year...
...which, we hope, will be duly appreciated. He urged the necessity of the punctual attendance at the gymnasium of every man at the time appointed for doing the weights, and said that negligence in this respect and in the doing of the other work on the track and chest-weights, was not only unjust to themselves and to the class, but subjected the coach and the other members of the crew to serious inconvenience, and would be taken into account in the final selection. In regard to the Christmas vacation, he required strict adherence to the pledge of total abstinence...