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...upon the Gymnasium for the exercise that is necessary to keep in good bodily health. Many students wonder that they do not grow stronger after weeks of hard work in the gymnasium. Some find that instead of making them stronger and better their exercise makes them feel tired and listless in the evenings and unfits them for study. The reason for this is simply that they have not gone about it in the right way; either they have overdone it or they have not taken their exercise systematically. For the great majority of men the best work is regular light...
...ball was in Princeton's territory almost all the time during this half, and at one time the ball was within 2 yards of her goal. In the second half the Harvard eleven seemed to go all pieces. They seemed to have lost all snap, and played a listless game, the Princeton men breaking through the opposing line at will...
Harvard '98, 7; Cambridge H. and L., 6.Yesterday the freshmen defeated the Cambridge High and Latin School by a score of 7 to 8. The game was close but loosely played. The freshmen put up a listless game with little team play, showing the urgent need of systematic coaching. The feature of the game was the batting of Lockman for Cambridge. Hayes played shortstop and Haskell second. Holt pitched. The only place not definitely settled seems to be first base, for which Walker and Hall are about equal...
...soon as the work began to be settled, prospects were encouraging, with all the old players back, and several new men of promise, among them Mills, DeWitt, Jerrems, Louis Hinkey, Brown, and Chadwick. But within a few weeks the team played wretchedly slow and listless football. The veterans were the poorest. At the same time came the accidents that always occur during the middle of the season. Butterworth, Beard, Adee, and several of the new candidates developed physical troubles, rather more being in the nature of sickness, than sprains or bruises. This state of affairs grew worse until at least...
Woodward, the other guard, is too listless, apt to be carried back by a lively opponent and plays altogether too high. He is not strong at following the ball...