Word: strengthening
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...regards individual training, they wish each incoming student to be weighed, measured, examined and tested by an expert professor, who will carefully take note of each lad's physical peculiarities, and prescribe for him a course of systematic exercise, so devised and arranged as to accelerate slow growth, strengthen weak organs, cultivate neglected muscles, and gradually educate and train each individual into a man, physically sound, healthy, well-balanced, and evenly developed...
...present condition owing to doubts as to the strength of its walls, and as a result it stands empty and useless for weeks at a time. Now it seems as if the old hall could be again made useful by building interior partition walls of brick so as to strengthen and bind the structure together; and by dividing it off into suites of rooms like those in Holworthy, with a study in front and two bed-rooms in the rear, the accommodations of the yard would be materially increased. By this arrangement twelve suites of rooms would be provided...
...game and a familiarity with concerted play, all of which enormously increases his resources and thus renders him doubly effective. Moreover the danger of any demoralizing effect of sudden changes in the play is minimized. The effect of such a system upon the game itself is undoubtedly to strengthen and render it more scientific. As a matter of fact, the rough nature of the game has rather withdrawn attention from the fineness of its details and the perfection to which preconcerted manoeuvres can be carried. We are confident that our success is attributable largely to the superiority of our team...
...issue regarding the heat in the gymnasium basement. There is much inquiry on the part of those who have lockers there when the heat will be turned on; for it is quite dangerous to be obliged to change our clothes in such a cool place. This is simply to strengthen the previous item and to call the attention of the proper authorities to the fact. FIDES...
...action of the faculty in offering, through Mr. Wendell, advanced instruction in rhetoric and theme writing to those who have not been able to secure admission into English 5, is an indication of the desire of the college to strengthen the department of English and to enlarge the opportunities offered to those who wish to perfect themselves in the writing of modern English. It has been said for some time that there is a strong party in the board of overseers who are in favor of directing a larger share of attention in the arrangement of the curriculum...