Word: out-door
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...since she will have the advantages of playing all her most important games on the home grounds. The only serious drawback which the captain and management have to struggle against is a lack of new candidates just at this time. To be sure, the men have only just begun out-door work,-but more new men should present themselves. Unless they turn out in larger numbers immediately, the cricket team will be unable, even under the most advantageous circumstances...
...first out-door handicap meeting of the B. A. A., W. L. Thompson '93 won first place in the 75 yards dash with O. W. Shead '93, second; time 8 1-5 seconds. In the 600 yards run G. L. Batchelder '92 won from the scratch in 1 min. 22 1-5 sec. In the running broad jump T. Richardson '94 was the scratch man, and took third place with an actual jump of 21 feet 2 1-2 inches...
...once held, that a trained man was no better in this work than any other. While in all professions great advances have been made, a new profession has come up, that of physical director. It is a fact that in all times those nations which have taken the most out-door exercise, have proved the strongest in every way. And now, when so many people are kept all day at their business in the city there is a great danger that they will not properly take care of their bodies...
...chairs, which were very massive and heavy, were arranged around the walls of the room, and the table was set before them. Their bill of fare was also very simple, consisting mostly of cheese, bread, meat and wine. They were hearty eaters, but through the restraint of their out-door life and exercise they seldom drank to excess...
...like those of Northern colleges of the grade of Dartmouth, Brown or Amherst, never had any doors apparently, and do not need them." Nor have hard blizzards necessitated even the replacing of "windows broken in war time." The roses bloom all the time in open air, and there is out-door singing in the January evenings, as with us in June. The board and lodging is fabulously cheap ($18 a month) from our point of view, but the students are perhaps even better fed, for the cooking is excellent. The University is now feeling the new pulse of growth pervading...