Word: sargent
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...following opinion of Dr. Sargent on boxing as exercise was read by Dr. Abbott last Sunday to the congregation of Plymouth Church...
Much of what Dr. Sargent had to say was quite true, and the students must lay the lack of sufficient hot water in part to their own foolishness. If those who come first would have a little more regard for those who are to follow, a great deal of unnecessary fault-finding would be obviated...
...gives out in the shower bath-room and the agonies of an icy cold ducking have to be endured immediately after vigorous exercise, or else one is forced to wait some ten or fifteen minutes for the hot water to begin flowing. The complaint was brought directly to Dr. Sargent yesterday in view of the possibility of his being able to help matters somewhat. He said that while the authorities fully realized the bad condition of things, that repairs and alterations were continually being made. If, however, those who use the bath-rooms early in the afternoon would only exercise...
...Russell, of Bowdoin College. has made a lift of 1170 pounds, which is the best ever made under the Sargent system...
...With the admirable article upon football which appeared in the Century a few months since, and the essays of Dr. Sargent upon physical culture in Scribner later, there is hardly an excuse now for the prejudiced and offensive view of the game which is taken by people in general-people, too, who have rarely, if ever, seen an exhibition, but who form their opinion from heresay. There is danger, no doubt, of minor hurts as there is in everything which enters into the domain of athletics; there is danger, remotely, of serious accident as there is likewise in the most...