Word: strong
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...deal more minutely with the somewhat different methods in use at the Harvard School, we find that most other institutions of architectural training base their ideas almost exclusively on the example set by the Paris Ecole des Beaux Arts. At Harvard the strong points of the French School in plan and composition are profited by as far as possible, but instead of following the tradition of the Ecole in the working out of designs and especially in the treatment of detail which are often of questionable taste, the student is encouraged to found his work on a study...
...candidates for short, Laughlin, substitute on the 'Varsity last year, and Pote, substitute catcher the year before seem to be the best men. Both are good, lively players, though by no means strong...
...work in the compulsory course of freshman gymnastics has been put to a strong test during the past months, and the scheme has proved itself a very practicable one. The work has been decidedly progressive, and the results very gratifying to the instructors in charge. The course has been relieved of monotony as far as possible by a change of work every two or three weeks. Each month a new branch of gymnastics is taken...
...first of May of each year each institution will publish in the order of their superiority the record of its fifty strongest men examined that year. The individual having the highest total shall be considered the champion strong man of all the colleges, and the institution having the fifty strongest men, as decided by the largest total score, shall hold the total strength trophy for the next year. In making up the record for the first fifty, only such tests as have actually been made during the college year, from October first to May first, will be allowed to count...
...certain class of men, if it puts a premium on indoor in opposition to outdoor exercise, and encourages individual at the expense of team work, it is in measure disadvantageous. This fact has already been recognized by a number of men with the result that our list of 50 strong men can as a whole scarcely be called representative. Thus though the danger exists it is improbable that intercollegiate rivalry will increase sufficiently to exaggerate training for strength tests at Harvard...