Word: dieting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...ostensible reason for this monthly weighing is that the Faculty desire to ascertain the effect of the meals eaten by the students upon their health. If the students grow fat it will be assumed that their diet is too rich, and if they grow thin it will be regarded as evidence that they are not sufficiently fed. Whether the real end in view is to ascertain upon how little food a student can thrive, and to confine him to precisely that quantity, is not known, but there is certainly room for suspecting that this is Dr. Hamlin's design...
There are those who insist that Dr. Hamlin really cares nothing about investigating the effect of diet upon his pupils, but that his object in setting up a collegiate weighing-machine is to substitute weighing for the old-fashioned methods of examination. The weighing-machine will afford, in some respects, a fair test of the progress which the students have made in the higher studies-such as base ball and rowing-and Dr. Hamlin may intend to assign collegiate honors to the students who succeed in training themselves down to the best possible weight. There is a good deal that...
EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: At this time of year when the heat is so overpowering and the work for examinations so wearing, college men naturally grow fastidious in their diet. It seems reasonable that the steward of Memorial should, therefore, try to cater in some degree to the changed tastes of his boarders and should provide a different menu in some respects. But we find the same old bill of fare that we have had all winter still continued, with its heavy meats and solid desserts. Some change ought certainly to be made. Many men would willingly dispense with certain articles...
...crew pulling over their course in the harbor. Beyond their work in the boat the crew take no other important exercise. They are all in fine condition, and pull the boat through the water with speed that augurs well for them in the race at New London. Their diet has been more liberal than heretofore. In matters of drink they are limited to water, iced tea and milk. The stroke will be the same as that pulled last year. It is the common belief among the boating men here that the fast stroke is in every point better than...
...Greeks paid especial attention to food and the question of diet in training. They used to run very long distances, retire early and rise with the sun, and thus, till twenty-five years of age, they were in continual training. This system, so completely carried out, accounts, perhaps, for many of the great feats and remarkable records reported as having been made by the Greeks. If our knowledge of their sports and methods of training were more accurate and comprehensive, it is not to be doubted that we could gain many valuable hints therefrom...