Word: muscular
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Muscular System (The Bony Skeleton...
...squad of several football men, there are now some 25 candidates. The first crew has been using the slide for two weeks. The method of the stroke seems to be a long swing of the body accompanied with a most excellent drive with the legs. The candidates are all muscular and few weigh under one hundred and sixty pounds...
...amount of time equivalent to at least four hours a week, he should receive some sort of credit for this work from the highest authorities of the University. Further, if any student passes an examination in a series of tests selected for measuring the special powers of his neuro-muscular mechanism, and his consequent ability to meet the duties and exigencies of life, he should be credited with the result of this examination in his efforts towards a degree...
Captain Fennessy had charge of the remaining 'varsity squads in the Gymnasium and also of the freshmen candidates. The material among the latter is unusually heavy and muscular for a freshman crew. The quality is good to start with, so that it is possible to predict well for them...
...boxing and football there go varying degrees of quickness and accuracy, tables can be prepared and statistics made out which will be very interesting and valuable. The tests are along a line parallel and immediately related to those of Dr. Sargent. Dr. Fitz deals with the nervous part of muscular action, while Dr. Sargent tests the body, the agent of the nervous action. As a scientific study these tests are decidedly worthy of attention and the students should take sufficient interest in them to present themselves at the prescribed hours. Men from all branches of athletic training at all will...