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...student's theory of individual training is entirely different. He chooses men who give promise as oarsmen, and limits their exercise to rowing, until they have the oarsman's round-shouldered stoop, and lean arm, and are fit for nothing else. He selects lads with strong legs and slight upper works, and keeps them at running or football kicking until they have the legs of Hercules under the arms and chest of a school girl. He picks out boys with strong arms and full chests, but slim legs, and puts them at dumbbells, or rings, or bars, or ladders, until...
Only twenty-four ! I should have thought her at least forty. Pale and sallow, lanky and awkward, with straight hair cut short and put back from a high forehead on which there were already many wrinkles, she looked a plain, unhealthy woman, her shoulders had the student's stoop, and her movements were constrained and full of gaucherie. She was careless, almost slovenly in her dress; but I mentally excused all this in her feeling sure that her concersation would be brilliant enough to make amends for all her other shortcomings. But what was my surprise when I found that...
...Harvard or Princeton since the league was formed, but has been unlucky. When she has added three or four more departments; when she establishes a nursery for cultivating base-ball talent; when she makes use of players until they have justly earned the sobriquet of "veterans;" when her players stoop so low as to practice any means, however unbecoming gentlemen and unfair, to win a game, then may she easily lead those rivals with whom she quite successfully competes at present and who cry out against...
...life of the poco is indeed a trying one. Beset with arduous cares, compelled at all times to be at his post in rainy or in stormy weather, forced to stoop to petty barter and ignoble shifts. what wonder that his mind assumes a stern and misanthropic cast and that soon...
...property of fellow-students - overcoats, hats, or umbrellas - is something to be deeply regretted. The recent discovery of a student who had been taking his meals for a week at the Hall at the expense of the Association shows, however, that there are some among us who will stoop to acts of meanness; and we can only warn all to be on their guard, and to make every effort to discover the offenders...