Word: dumb
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...hundred men reported yesterday for winter track work. All the men were given dumb-bell drill and chest-weights exercises. In addition to this work, the high-jumpers and shot-putters practiced in the Gymnasium. The runners were given outdoor work, the distance men taking an easy run to Porter Station and back, the sprinters and relay men being given practice in starts and a run of six laps around the board-track on Holmes Field...
Practice for the candidates for the University track team was held on Saturday at 12 o'clock, and owing to the snow, all work was confined to the Gymnasium. The men went through a dumb-bell drill, exercised with the chest-weights, were practiced in starts on the short straightaway in the basement, and ran ten easy laps around the gallery track...
Regular practice for the squads of candidates for the University track team was held yesterday as usual, the work consisting of exercise with the dumb-bells and chest-weights, and practice starts on the short straightaway track in the basement of the Gymnasium. On account of the falling snow there was no regular outdoor work on the board track on Holmes Field...
...largely increased yesterday and there are now 125 men engaged in the regular winter training. A comparison with the number of candidates who had reported at this time last year shows an increase this year of 30 men. The practice yesterday consisted of work with the chest-weights and dumb-bells, practice starts, and four easy laps around the board track on Holmes Field. The straightaway, which will be constructed diagonally across the circular track, will be completed the first of next week...
Regular winter work for candidates for the University track team began yesterday at the Gymnasium. About thirty men, including some of the members of last year's team, reported, and were given light exercise with the chest-weights and dumb-bells, practice in starts in the Gymnasium, and four easy laps on the new circular board track on Holmes Field. The squads will continue to meet at 11, 12, 3.30 and 4.30 o'clock each day, with the exception of Saturday, when there will be but one squad which will meet at 12 o'clock...