Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Most girls have weak arms. If they doubt it, let them try with one hand to push up once high over their head a dumb-bell weighing a quarter or even a fifth of their own weight. Or with both hands catching hold of a bar or the rung of a ladder, as high up as they can reach, let them see if they can pull slowly up till the chin touches the hands. Yet a moderately strong man at dumb-bells will push up one weighing over half his own weight, and some men have managed...
...Whether a larger crowd of Harvard men would have materially affected the result of the game it is impossible to say, but the fact that the score was so close and that a base hit or two at several points in the game would have given us a good push toward the lead, indicates that an enthusiastic support would have been of the greatest value...
...first places in our college athletics. But the truth of this furnishes no reason for discouraging the growth of the game. Cricket is one of the finest out-door sports that exists, and we hope to see among the cricketers in college enough interest and energy to push the sport into more general notice...
...show that the average length of life of boating men is greater than that of others. The scholarship of athletes is not necessarily poor, as is shown by the example of the '70 nine, which averaged over seventy percent. Moreover athletic training gives a man self-reliance, perseverance and "push." Athletics acts as a safety valve for some who would otherwise waste their energies in less laudable pursuits...
...Greek department seems to be determined to keep its well-earned reputation for push and energy, which has made it so popular in the past. The action of Prof. White in offering to the students of his course one of the retiring rooms in Sever as a reading room and study, must meet with the approval of every student who has suffered from the numerous inconveniences which necessarily attach to the library, however excellent the management of that institution. Where a large crowd frequent one room, as is the case with the library, there must be more or less noise...