Word: lunges
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...first looked promising, but just now it is considered a little disappointing for various reasons. It is gratifying, however, to know that the examination of the candidates by Dr. Sargent shows that there is strength, but the chief failing in many of the men is found to be small lung power. If the material were a little older and not quite so raw the committee would have no reason to complain, for the men are very faithful. The material does not appear to stand the work quite as well as was expected, and last week a recess was allowed...
...important aspect of the subject that we are glad is not overlooked. It is whether the athlete has the strength of constitution necessary to stand the strain of severe muscular exertion. We notice that in the cases of two of the three foot-ball players and rowing men, the lung capacity is said to be insufficient to support the fine muscular development. Indeed other factors have to be reckoned in the inquiry, and some do not lend themselves to tabulation. There are men whose organs show no defect, but who can not bear the strain of prolonged exertion, especially...
...August, 1869, the Times in its account of the Harvard-Oxford race, spoke of the "Ah! Ah!-Ah!" of the American college men. A letter to the Nation comments on this, and attacks the college for its abandonment of the "fine old lung" cheer (Hurrah), and its adoption of this "mouth-cheer, without either force or dignity." This brings out better several answers in strong support of our present cheer. The arguments or impressions of the writers are hardly interesting, except from what they say of the origin of the "Rah!" cheer, as follows: "In 1864 the college turned...
There is in the long run no simple influence so conducive to health of mind and body as a proper amount of physical exercise under the proper surroundings. The lungs feel the effect of exercise more than any of the organs. Smith found out by experiment that every exertion which he made increased the amount of air he inspired. He represented the amount of air which he breathed in when lying down as one. When standing, he took in one and one-third times as much. When walking at the rate of four miles an hour, fives times as much...
...possible, and, in so far as they depend upon diplomatic wording, and harrowing statement, they are successful. As to the latter point, it seems curious that, while the faculty is callous to excuses of over study, they yield at once to the blandishments of cell-wall degeneration of the lung...