Word: dumb
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...total inadequateness of the old structure for the use of the new university is demonstrated. There is scarcely an hour during the day but that there is some one at work there. For a half-hour every morning, Dr. Sever instructs the freshmen in club swinging and dumb bell exercise, and every evening a class in heavier gymnastics exercises under his guidance. In the afternoon during the common recreation hour the floor is crowded and all the apparatus is in use. The candidates for the Mott Haven team, usually about sixty in number, have not commenced work...
...back seat" if they can help it. Many of them already give promise of being exceptionally good oarsmen, and they are willing to work. They have already and intend in the future to practice running at "hare and hounds," and will exercise on the chest weights, Indian clubs, dumb bells, etc. Besides all this they take a two or three mile run every day when the weather will permit...
Besides rowing in the tank the candidates will exercise on the chest-weights, with Indian clubs and dumb-bells, and take a short run each...
...soon as the winter vacation was over, the candidates began to train regularly in the gymnasium. Three or four hundred strokes on the machines, a little light dumb-bell exercise and a short run up North avenue constituting the regular daily exercise. During the winter, Hanlan, the champion oarsman, visited the gymnasium and seemed very much interested in the work of the crew. He made several comments upon the rowing which were, of course, of great...
...succeed at whatever cost which we find to our surprise in the undergraduates of the present day, would we act so very differently after all? Would we not be charmed as of old by big, useless muscles in the men of our college class who practice daily at the dumb-bells, and prefer unwieldy giants to smaller men with muscles less startling but far greater will-power to punish themselves in the contest? And when it came to preparations for a boat-race against a college with which rivalry, if not exactly deadly, was a tradition of long standing, would...