Word: horseback
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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President Eliot, commenting, in his last report on the brutality of foot ball, says, "None of the popular games or contests which have proved long lived and respectable, (The italics are our own.) like cricket, tennis, fencing, shooting at a mark, rowing, sailing, hunting, jumping, and racing on foot, horseback, or bicycle, involve any bodily collision between the contestants." The president, in omitting base ball from this list, does not say, unfortunately, whether he places the game among the new, or the disreputable sports. His opinion, however, can be conjectured from the fact that bicycle riding...
...Winslow and H. M. Williams. It was also voted low carry a transparency with the result of the Harvard Union canvass upon it, and another with the result of the canvass of the senior class. A motion was carried requesting the Polo club to parade in suitable uniforms on horseback. The meeting then adjourned...
...English athletic games and sports, while in New England the French calisthenics are popular. Each system is good in its way, but in order to make perfect bodies and clear heads the three should be combined. There are probably no sports more invigorating than skating, bicycling, and riding horseback, but if carried to excess they are positively detrimental to the nervous system. This is the great trouble with our athletic clubs and college societies. All sorts of feats are indulged in for personal gratification, for medals, for money. How can a student give that cool, deliberative thought to his books...
...value as an exercise, but a spirited walk is one of the finest of all physical exercises. If a man enters heartily into this exercise he will be benefited by it. Carriage riding as a passive exercise is good for one of fine physique and good former physical development. Horseback riding is an excellent exercise for circulation, as very little of the nervous energy is being expended. For a person who uses the mind excessively, however, this form of exercise is not good, as it produces nervousness. Swimming is, without exception, one of the finest of all physical exercises...
...Captain relapsed into the quiet complacency of one who had a good story to tell to expectant listeners. "It was about twilight when we two - Jackson and I - set out on horseback from Rio Janeiro. We were going to pay a visit to an old friend of ours, Don Reggio, whose place was about twenty miles outside the city...