Word: heart
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...single change in the lineup of the University boats marked the crew practice of yesterday afternoon. W. R. Odell, Jr., '19, who has been rowing number two on the fourth shell, has been compelled to give up racing for the rest of the season on account of a weak heart. Odell rowed number two last year on his Freshman eight and was considered an oarsman of more than average ability. He will be able to continue rowing, but not to take part in any race...
Between the 7th and 13th the CRIMSON experienced a change of heart and gained fast in wisdom and prophecy. On the latter date it says: "It would be well if we could put off till tomorrow what seems obnoxious today. But war will not be put off. . . . We are now so near war that the sinking of one American ship, the wanton destruction of American lives, would draw us inevitably into the maelstrom." Since that date the second American ship has been sunk and other American lives destroyed but we are not yet at war. The cocksureness of the CRIMSON...
However, it can be emphatically stated that the athletic heart when subjected to the careful investigation of instruments of precision is usually shown to be a normal heart. A good proportion of the oarsmen examined had been told previously for one reason or another that they were suffering from athletic hearts; yet our investigation failed to confirm the presence of any abnormality that was not entirely consistent with a normal heart...
...course of a year many young men who are carrying the burden of a diagnosis of athletic or strained heart. Thus far, in the absence of a previously damaged heart due to some inflammatory condition of the valves, I have been unable to confirm the diagnosis of an abnormal heart. My feeling is that much harm is being done by the popular impression that athletics are a frequent cause of heart disease. I have tried to show that in some aspects at least this diagnosis has been based upon incorrect criteria. I find considerable comfort in the vigorous statements...
...this bogey at once, neither is it probably desirable. It is necessary that for the welfare of college students, who are participating in athletics, further intensive investigation should be carried out, and every effort should be made to determine whether in athletics there lurks any possible damage to the heart of the participant. There is ample opportunity for further investigation in this important field in which my own studies refer intensively only to a part...