Word: stomach
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...crew they row short. The recover is hurried and not smooth, and there is not enough life in the catch and heave. Most of the men fail to swing well from their hips, thereby getting a weak stroke and tiring themselves. The usual tendency to contract the stomach, instead of letting it take care of itself and hang naturally, is noticeable. This fault must be overcome if the men don't want to be used up in a short distance. The men must not hurry stroke. The crew is sitting up to its work better, and there appears...
...Must keep shoulders down and stomach natural. Keep head up and get better grip with outside hand...
...best form of exercise, but the doctor was not familiar with the light shells and the sliding-seat of the modern art of rowing. Moreover he was merely recommending to his son, the governor of New Jersey, a course of life that would make his heart and stomach perform their functions healthily. Whatever may be the one best form of exercise, if a person is to have only one, it is certainly not boxing...
...number and are working daily under the guidance of Gill, '89. The regular routine consists of a short run when the weather permits, work on the chest weights, dumbbells and Indian clubs and such movements of the body as will strengthen the muscles of the back and stomach and rowing on the hydraulic. The men are unusually light and as yet no very good candidates have been developed: The men and their weights are as follows: Isham, 163, Oastler, 156; Dean, 148; Aiken, 163; Coates, 155; Chadwick, 162; Corson, 148; Moody, 147; Treadwell, 147; Judson, 147; Drew, 147; Thurke...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON:- We who board at Memorial are forced to stomach a good many unpleasant doses. But it does seem as if, when a thing is so cheap, and abundant as water, and withal so necessary, we might have the pure article. The water furnished at Memorial is naturally a little turbid. But the animals which now infest it are conspicuous, even among the floating particles of lint which thicken it. If anyone will take the trouble to look in his glass in the morning he will see them skipping about in high glee. Better water than this...