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This subject may be summed up by the statement that thirty years have practically seen the establishment of definite systems of physical training and a great improvement in the general physical welfare of students; that during this period out-door sports have, like the swing of a pendulum, carried the men from inordinate study to excessive athletic training and back again to a more sensible adjustment between such studies and sports. It is only of late years that we have begun to settle down to this reasonable adjustment. During all these years both physical training and out-door sports have...
...pendulum has swung too far in the other direction. Neither athletics nor scholarship are wholly good or wholly bad. They are good when they occupy just that amount of attention needed for rounded development, and bad when they occupy either more or less...
...behind a screen. The screen is suddenly dropped and the subject strikes as quickly and accurately as possible a white spot in the centre of the carriage. The time from the dropping of the screen to the hitting of the dot is measured in hundredths of seconds by a pendulum chronometer and the error of the blow to the right or left of the center, is registered automatically. This apparatus makes it possible to test two qualifications most necessary for a good boxer, fencer, football or tennis player, that is, quickness of sight and accuracy of motor response...
Professor Pickering is at present working upon an experiment for ascertaining the exact location of the pole. The instrument used consists of a stationary reflecting telescope with a plate holder suspended in the centre of the aperture upon a pendulum, to avoid any variations of the telescope which might arise from changes of temperature. The movement of the stars revolving about the pole as a centre are photographed upon the plate, and from the races described the location of the pole can be accurately ascertained by geometrical and trigonometry observations...
...heave of the shoulders at the end of the stroke. Indeed, the dominent virtue of this system of rowing is its smoothness and freedom from all apparent effort. Even in the excitement of a race, when the men are trying to pull the blades off the oars, the continuous pendulum-like motion of the body at the end of the stroke effectually veils their frantic efforts...