Word: dumb
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...class is to give to all those students who are not connected with any of the athletic teams of the University, and who desire to take regular exercise in company with others, an opportunity to develop themselves under systematic instruction. The exercises will consist of light gymnastics, drill with dumb bells, indian clubs, etc. Various light games will also be introduced...
April 25. Deaf and Dumb Institute at Princeton...
Since the first day of practice a week ago, about 60 men have been practicing daily with the freshman baseball squad. Their work so far has consisted of light dumb-bell exercises in the Gymnasium, followed by a short run to the Carey building, where they practice catching grounders and starting. They have also begun lately to practice sliding. The candidates for battery positions are now working in the gymnasium cage and will probably be joined soon by some of the 'varsity candidates. From present indications the freshmen should have a strong battery, but it is too early...
Fairchild of last year's crew came out yesterday for the first time. The crew will be in strict training from now on. Their work is a trifle more severe than at first, consisting of between 500 and 600 strokes on the machines, followed by a dumb-bell drill and a three mile...
...this is simply that they have not gone about it in the right way; either they have overdone it or they have not taken their exercise systematically. For the great majority of men the best work is regular light exercise on the pulley weights or with the wooden dumb-bells. But to some these methods seem slow and tedious. They desire to become strong in a few days, and so they try to lift heavy iron bells and perform feats upon the parallel and horizontal bars. The result of such a method of training naturally is that these men find...