Word: strength
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Each one of you will tell here just in proportion to the strength of your own personal character. And let me add one other word. These things may look far away, but in reality all are close at hand. The hour of acquisition is infinitely precious. It should be the means of procuring a full, abundant and happy life...
...University made during the year ending June 10, 1896, in accordance with the system adopted at the Hemenway Gymnasium. These points are reckoned as follows: The number of kilos. lifted with the back and legs straight, and the number of kilos. lifted with the legs bent, added to the strength of the grip of the right and left hands, expiratory power as tested by the manometer, and one-tenth of the weight in kilos. multiplied by the number of times that the person can raise his weight by dipping between parallel bars and pulling his weight up to his chin...
Opportunities for making the strength tests at the Hemenway Gymnasium will be closed June...
...excellent ball playing, yet so far Holmes Field has seen but one really good match and that went against Harvard. Today the University is anxious to see a good, snappy exhibition of ball playing and to see the Harvard team win. The students are confident in the strength of the 'Varsity Nine, and are proud of its recent victory over Brown...
Yesterday afternoon a large number of men went down to the river to cheer the 'Varsity Crew, but unhappily were unable to see the whole crew row. This was due to the fact that Captain Bullard slightly strained his back while taking the strength test, and that Goodrich is a little over-trained. A crew of five men from the Freshman boat and the three bow men from the 'Varsity boat, however, rowed up and down in front of the boathouse. Before the men got into the boat, the students, under the leadership of J. C. Fairchild '96, heartily cheered...