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...unfits them for study. The reason for this is simply that they have not gone about it in the right way; either they have overdone it or they have not taken their exercise systematically. For the great majority of men the best work is regular light exercise on the pulley weights or with the wooden dumb-bells. But to some these methods seem slow and tedious. They desire to become strong in a few days, and so they try to lift heavy iron bells and perform feats upon the parallel and horizontal bars. The result of such a method...
Quite a number of visitors viewed the work of the 'varsity crew yesterday; the first day of "open" practice since the holidays. The crew went through the usual work, that is, rowed 600 strokes and spent three quarters of an hour on the pulley weights. The order...
SPALDING'S ATHLETIC LIBRARY for January is out today. It is devoted to Exercising with Pulley Weights and is one of the most practical publications ever issued on how to obtain strength, recreation and exercise by the aid of the pulley weights. The book is written by Henry S. Anderson, well known in college athletics. He is instructor of heavy gymnastics at Yale. The book if fully illustrated, contains 60 illustrations, showing how each movement, with the machine, is to be made, and also explains minutely what muscles are benefitted. Published by The American Sports Publishing Co., 241 Broadway...
...candidates for the senior crew met yesterday for the first time since the Christmas recess. The same men who were training before the vacation made up the twelve candidates. The men practiced on the rowing machines in the gymnasium, and the usual work on the pulley weights and dumb bells was supplemented by a short...
...some game which can be played in the fall by men whose weight is too light for football. As it is, a great many men idle about the gymnasium in the afternoon who would be very glad of some kind of exercise which would afford more excitement than pulley-weights and dumb-bells. The game is one that keeps everyone in motion all the time and is particularly well suited for this season of the year...