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Although the present intercollegiate strength test has done much to raise the standard of strength and physical efficiency in the colleges participating, it is open to several serious objections. In the first place, the expense of the dynamometers and other instruments used in making it, restricts its use to the few colleges--and institutions which can afford the necessary apparatus. Other objections are the great strain brought to bear in the lifting tests upon small groups of muscles, and the increased blood pressure caused by holding the breath during the effort of lifting. An even more serious objection...
...Turner, the chaplain, spoke briefly of the work done by the Institute in helping to alleviate the condition of the southern negro. The problem is the four fold one of the church, the schoolhouse, the home and the industrial life. Six millions out of the eight millions of negroes in the South live in the one-room cabin, and Hampton, through its trade school and academic department, is trying to transform the one-room cabin into the intelligent, self-supporting Christian home. Mr. T. B. Williams, a graduate of the Hampton Institute, and also a graduate of Harvard...
...clock this evening. In addition to the concert addresses will be made by Mr. T. B. Williams and Mr. Jacob Morgan, both of whom are graduates of Hampton. Mr. Williams is one of the agents of the Southern Education Board, and will speak of the work which is being done in the South by graduates of the Institute. Mr. Morgan is a Navajo Indian and will give a description of life among the Indians...
...allowed to use the Craigie tank for practice. The Brookline tank also may be used. The hours at which it is open are as follows: Monday afternoon, Tuesday evening, Wednesday afternoon and evening, Thursday evening, all day Friday and Saturday morning and evening. All candidates who have not yet done so should at once hand in their names to C. G. Dodge, Weld...
...these men only one or two are of exceptional ability. Although there are a number of other good men in College, they will have to do better than they have ever done before in order to equal the performances of some of the Yale team. Thus Harvard must rely solely on second, third and fourth places, and to win must have a large squad of men who will be satisfied with nothing short of success...