Word: strains
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...well known that the headaches and discomforts due to eye strain are experienced by the strong and vigorous as well as by the weak and poorly nourished. The relation of the general health to the muscles of the eye is therefore a question of interest to oculists, to persons who have such headaches and even to those in perfect health. For, if the ocular muscles of the latter are not also proportionally strong, such persons may suffer from eye strain at any time or else resort to glasses prematurely. These difficulties have received much attention of late years from aphthalmologists...
...only contribution of any length is, "Its Voyage," a clever play upon words. Of the editorials, one is a farewell of the 1903 board, the other a commentary on football. The humor displayed on this subject never becomes so subtle as to strain the attention, and shows admirable self-control in the use of oaths...
...part in the first practice of the University and Freshman squads yesterday afternoon. Although it was hard to judge the men on their first appearance, the showing on the whole was very fair. The practice for pitchers and catchers was very light, in order that the men might not strain their arms by throwing too hard at first. Later in the afternoon the other candidates for the University team were given a short trail. The men at first tossed the ball lightly back and forth, and then were given practice in stopping grounders...
...physical efficiency in the colleges participating, it is open to several serious objections. In the first place, the expense of the dynamometers and other instruments used in making it, restricts its use to the few colleges--and institutions which can afford the necessary apparatus. Other objections are the great strain brought to bear in the lifting tests upon small groups of muscles, and the increased blood pressure caused by holding the breath during the effort of lifting. An even more serious objection to the present test is that it does not try the heart and lungs sufficiently to afford...
...formed, which has, with allowance for the usual number of changes, come through the season in not greatly altered form. In many of the preliminary games the team had hard struggles to avoid defeat, and it was only through the inability of the opposing elevens to keep up the strain imposed upon them by the superior weight of the Harvard team that such disastrous results were not encountered in more than one instance. Last Saturday, a lack of team-play all but ended in defeat at the hands of the Dartmouth eleven, but the experience of that was invaluable...