Word: grandes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...some of our college may be inferred from a single illustration taken from the records at Harvard University. In the year 1880, seven hundred and seventy-six men were physically examined. The strongest man out of this number showed in strength of lungs, back, legs, chest and arms, a grand total of 675.2. At the close of the summer term of the present year, the highest strength test recorded was 1272.8 and there were over two hundred men in college whose total strength test surpassed the highest test of 1880. This general gymnasium work is, therefore, reducing the one-sided...
This is the grand object to be attained. The straight line is the physical sign of health and longevity, of perfect structure and harmony of function, and a symmetrical development of the whole body...
...Judge Field, of the U. S. Supreme Court, presides, and at the public exercises tonight, William Elliott Griffis, D. D., of Boston, will deliver the oration, and Homer Green, Esq., of Honesdale, Pa., the poem. Wednesday night was given up to reunion, and Thursday night to a grand reception. Twenty-four colleges of this country are represented by undergraduates...
...grand fault of freshman teams is an over-confidence which, prophesying victory, thinks superfluous the careful and minute preparation success demands. Anything then that tends to educate men in athletics or to cultivate interest in them is of vital importance to the freshmen as a body, as a counterpoise to the above mentioned error of over confidence, and individuals would do well to bear in mind that the training they can get by trying for their crew may serve them well later, when, being older, rougher and more fully developed, their ambition may be the 'Varsity crew...
Contracts have been awarded for the building of the new grand stand at the Boston grounds at an estimated cost of over...