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...gymnasium to watch the contestants. These contests would also tend to improve the general standard of work done at the winter meetings-in fact would be the best preliminary training for those preparing to enter the winter meetings. The athletic association ought this year to take "time by the fore lock" and have everything ready for a prompt start early in the next term...
...students is small, and a Cambridge audience is not reputed to be the most enthusiastic in the world. It would be well, however, if the students who do go would put a little more life and animation in applauding the performers than has been the custom here to fore. It serves to make everything pass on more smoothly, inspiring a confidence and an ease to the soloist which is always appreciated...
...communications in regard to fire-escapes in our yesterday's issue, brings to the fore a well-worn subject, but one which cannot be dropped until remedied. We have repeatedly called the attention of the faculty to the large loss of life which must necessarily ensue in case of a fire in any of the dormitories. There is no possible means of egress except by the stairs, and if escape in that direction should be cut off, one would be compelled to sit down and calculate how many minutes were to elapse before the flames reached the upper story. Perhaps...
...exceptions, and the measurements have to be confirmed by an actual strength test. These trials were made by means of three spring-dynamometers, a spirometer, manometer, a pair of suspended rings and a set of parallel bars. The tests were limited to the back, legs, chest, upper arm and fore-arm. Before summing up the result of the arm of chest tests, the number of times that a person had lifted himself either way was multiplied into a tenth of his weight; the object being to credit each person with the number of foot pounds lifted, rather than to reckon...
...students who resort to this mode of exercise." To which Capt. Cook replies: "It must be true, indeed, that the enforcement of correct principles of rowing has had much to do with bringing about the victories in which Yale's standard has been carried so valiantly to the fore. But, while you so generously insist on giving so much credit to the 'Cook Stroke,' let me remind you that the most scientific principles would have gone for nothing without the skill and brawn, the splendid discipline and the unswerving confidence of the men in the value of these principles...