Word: dumbness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...regular training for all candidates for the lacrosse team will begin on Wednesday. It will consist mainly of stick practice in the cage, and work on the weights and dumb bells. A meeting is called for this evening in the Trophy Room of the Gymnasium. Some of the graduates who were well known lacrosse experts will address the meeting, which is open to all men who are interested in the game, and its advancement among the colleges...
...Rood, 2 M. S., broke the world's amateur record for lifting a dumb-bell, last night at the Hemenway Gymnasium. The previous record of 201 pounds, 5 ounces, was made in 1874 by R. Pennell of New York, who weighed 215 pounds. Rood is 20 years old, is 5 ft. 6 in. in height, and weighs 145 pounds...
Rood has trained chiefly at home and has only been working with dumb-bells two years...
Last evening L. C. Rood of the Medical School fai edio an attempt to break the amateur record in dumb-bell lifting, by putting up a dumb-bell weighing exactly 205 pounds. The record was established in 1874, by R. A. Pennell, in New York, by swinging a bell, weighing 201 1bs., 5 oz., with both hands to the shoulder, and then putting it up with one hand. The gymnasium last night was cold, and Rood was made somewhat nervous by the presence of a hundred spectators. However, he will later try again to break the record...
...Emmons. High jump, Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, 11.40 a. m. or 12.40 p. m. High and low hurdles, Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at 11.40 a. m. or 12.40 p. m. Weight men and walkers do all their work at the time designated above. Others do chest weight and dumb-bell work in regular squads...