Word: strains
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1890-1899
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Intercollegiate football is injurious to the players. - (a) Physically. - (1) Liability to overwork. - (2) Nervous strain. - (3) Liability to injuries. - (b) Intellectually. - (1) Takes excessive amount of time. - (2) Takes excessive amount of thought. - (x) Total preoccupation before the great games. - (c) Morally. - (1) Encourages extravagance. - (2) Leads to vulgar notoriety. - (3) Engenders ill feeling between colleges. - (4) Dulls the sense of honor. - (5) Dulls the feeling and has a brutalizing influence. - (6) Establishes false ideals. - (x) Physical force placed above intellectual and moral qualities...
...Perkins '98; 4, Manning '95; 3, Jennings '98; 2, Fennessy '96; bow, Bullard '96, and three substitutes, Lewis '96, Damon Gr., and Webb L. S. These are the men from whom Mr. Watson will pick his eight. Watriss L. S., who is laid off on account of a strain, may begin rowing again next week. The six men who were dropped will commence training at once for their class crews...
...present, though Mr. Deland and Newell were the only ones to take any active part in infusing life into the work. The men appeared stiff at first but soon warmed to the work, so that one could never have judged that they had recently gone through so severe a strain. Hallowell was out in spite of his broken nose and went through the signals with the first eleven. Hayes has developed a bad ankle, and had little to do aside from punting. Neither Waters nor C. Brewer appeared during the afternoon...
...grandstands at Springfield have been examined by State Inspector Buckstone, City Engineer Slocomb, County Inspector Knight, Architect Perkins, and Bevard, an engineer from Norcross Bros. They are pronounced to be thoroughly capable of standing any strain that may be put upon them...
...junior crew is badly handicapped by the loss of Peabody, stroke, and Potter, No. 6. The latter has bronchitis, while the former has had to give up rowing on account of a strain received in practice Wednesday. It was uncertain last night just what the make-up of the boat will be. Capen will probably row in the place of Potter, while stroke is undecided...