Word: feet
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Tech meeting last Saturday was largely attended by the students, Harvard men comprising fully one-fourth of the audience. As is usual, the sparring was the main feature of the meeting, although the other events were well contested. The running high jump was won by Devens, '88, 5 feet 3-4 inches; running high kick, W. S. Phillips, at 8 feet 11 inches. Fence vault, was won by W. L. Dearbon...
...Harvard men. Chamberlain, Harvard, '86, having two professionals, J. D. Ryan and J. Cunningham against him. These latter men were allowed to throw the shot while Chamberlain made a square put. The result, as was natural, was in favor of the professionals. The records were Ryan, 38 feet 3 inches; Cunningham, 38 feet; Chamberlain, 36 feet 5 inches...
...this is the great objection to all in-door exercise. The actual results of impure air arising from too many people in one place, is shown by the sufferings of those confined in the "Black Hole" of Calcutta. Huxley has computed that a man needs 23,000 cubic feet of air every day, that his excretions of carbonic acid may not pollute the air. Pleurisy not only affects the lungs but the diaphragm, which is the principal agent in drawing air into the lungs. The enlargement of the pleura forces the air out of the air cells, thin walls...
...accommodations. They have rented Wood's gymnasium for the entire season, and are to be seen rowing there every afternoon at half past four o'clock. In order to accommodate the crew, a raised platform has been erected at the further end of the gymnasium; it is about nine feet from the floor, and about four and a half feet wide. Upon this platform eight rowing machines have been placed in position, and fastened to the walls are the weights. Although everything is very simple and unpretentious when compared to our large and well equipped rowing room, the work accomplished...
Vital capacity is the volume of air which a man can expel from his lungs after making the deepest inspiration of which he is capable. The vital capacity of a men 5 feet 8 inches tall is 230 cubic inches, a variation of 16 per cent. either way is the limit of health...