Word: dieting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...long distance from New York. and the fatiguing journey, the change of diet and surroundings, and above all the abominable Croton water will put the best men out of condition. Cornell suffers from this cause far more than Harvard. Yale, Columbia, the University of Pennsylvania, and Lafayette, which college were the only ones to win prizes this year...
...precarious existence at American colleges, and there was no large body of graduate oarsmen on whom to lean for advice and from whom to beg the arduous and ungrateful services of a "coach." it was only human that professionals should be paid to look after the stroke and diet of the crews. Professionals were at least kept out of the boat. There is no record like that of the Brasenose Oxford four in 1824, which contained two college men, a professional, and an outsider of attainments unrecorded by the muse of history...
...origin of the name is as follows: In the year 1795, while the students were living together in commons, a member of the class of 1797, who was suffering from ill-health, hired an old lady living near by to cook him regularly some hasty pudding, thinking that this diet would be beneficial to him. As he seemed to thrive under this treatment, a number of his classmates tried the same experiment. The result was that the dish grew in popularity and the "Pudding Men," as they were styled, met each evening in the room of one of the members...
...sculler of Sheffield Scientific School of the class of '86, will begin to coach them on March 1. In the meantime Captain Rogers, assisted by ex-Captain Cowles, will train the crew. They have as yet no training table, and no restrictions have so far been placed on their diet and beverages. It has always been felt that considerable valuable time has been lost each spring in changing from the action of hydraulic machines to the light swift shells that are used on the harbor, so that the practice in the tank is anxiously looked forward to. Of course...
...which is singularly unlike these others in character. It is a pretty creature and such as society belles wear as ornaments in parts of Brazil - and is very tame and affectionate. Its bed is a small ball of cotton into which it curls itself, and its chief and favorite diet is the common house-fly. Professor Garman also has some salamanders and lizards in captivity which betray some intelligence, though the former is very muscular and a trifle ill-tempered, and resists vigorously an attempt to lift him from his nest of wet moss. The collection of reptilia...