Word: muscularity
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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There are ten candidates for the freshman tug-of-war team in daily practice at the gymnasium, under the direction of Capt. Adams. Although the limit of six hundred pounds prevents very large and heavy men from competing, yet the majority of the contestants are muscular and well-built, and the probability is that '86 will have no occasion to be ashamed of the record made by her team at the winter meeting...
...audience of about one hundred was present in Sever 11 yesterday afternoon, to hear Dr. Sargent's fourth lecture on "Exercise - How and When to take it." The lecturer began with a few remarks explanatory of the waste and renewal of muscular tissue and of its dependence upon the amount of exertion, both physical and mental, to which the human frame is subjected. The best result is obtained from exercise when the body is in a state of perspiration, as then the blood is rushing more rapidly through the veins, the action of the heart is quicker and the energy...
...present conducted. Symmetry of development is never thought of, nor is it ever acquired by exclusive reliance upon any of our popular sports. Indeed, we would venture to select from any group of recognized athletes the oarsmen, the ball-players and the gymnasts, simply from their peculiar muscular development...
...conclude that, of the whole number of students, not more than ten per cent. give any attention whatever to physical exercise, and that less than six per cent. take it systematically as a means of culture and development. Surely, then, the charge that too much time is given to muscular education in our literary institutions has the slenderest possible foundation in the facts of the case. And it must be evident, too, that the members of college crews and ball nines are not in any proper sense representatives of the physical condition of the average students in their respective institutions...
...same exercises, as he needs change and advancement in physical as well as in mental study. In conclusion, although he recognizes the value of such sports as foot-ball, rowing and base-ball, he considers a well conducted gymnasium as best adapted to the requirements of a complete muscular education...