Word: eating
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Harvard freshmen, 99 per cent. part their hair in the middle, 38 per cent. use oil of bergamot, 10 per cent. go to recitations without gloves, 67 per cent. chew tobacco, 17 per cent. eat hasheesh. [Princetonian...
...Sargent's recent lecture on "What shall we eat to get strong?" he said in the course of his remarks : It has been customary to train athletes on lean beef and mutton, but he thought this a mistake, as tissue-making food should be used in combination with these, and the diet should be so changed as to meet the requirements of the organism of the person using it, for to establish one diet for all persons was ridiculous. Beef alone is not superior to meal, beans or other farmaceous food, and the size of the muscles...
...Sargent lectures this evening at the Union gymnasium on "What shall we eat to get strong...
...made. The lives of that class must have been made miserable by the exactions and duties which were required of them. Everyone from the president in his wig and gown down to the newly fledged sophomore could make those poor mortals do their bidding. The freshmen then had to eat "humble pie" such as they have never since tasted, even when nowadays their fondest hopes are blasted. How low they were held by their betters these last rules will show...
...system of training differing some what from that suggested by Mr. Myers is taken from an English paper, an authority on sporting matters. "Our idea of training," says Bell's Life in London, "is simple enough. All the athlete has to do is take plenty of exercise, live temperately, eat the best and simplest food, drink little, and smoke less. If possible, do entirely without the latter luxury, but should the athlete be a confirmed smoker, a few whiffs at bed time will do him less harm than constantly hankering after a pipe. Further, in most cases hard work before...