Word: swing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Gats no reach. Must sit up to it better and not swing so far back...
...producing that harmonious development at which Prof. Sargent aims. A young man who devotes himself exclusively to boxing, develops his legs somewhat at the expense of the rest of his body, and, in order to compel a uniform growth of his physical powers, he should row, wrestle, run, swing on the bars, and, by all means, use dumb bells and Indian clubs. It was Dr. Franklin's opinion that walking is the best form of exercise, but the doctor was not familiar with the light shells and the sliding-seat of the modern art of rowing. Moreover he was merely...
...order to offer an additional inducement to all who enter into the runs to put "their best foot forward," cups are given to those who by reason of their superior pluck and endurance manage to come in ahead of their fellows. Now that the college is beginning to swing into its regulated routine of work, it is time for those who have charge of the matter to organize runs for the fall term, and we hope that the freshmen will co-operate with the upper class-men in sustaining a branch of athletics from which so much good is derived...
...students from whom the applications come are said by the secretary to be of the most earnest and and industrious class. They are, many of them, country boys accustomed to hard work add patient efforts. Several of them are ready to go back into the field and swing the scythe or take care of horses and cattle. One is prepared by past experience to act as fireman on a locomotive, or conductor on a horse car. Another has been a conductor on a Pullman car and would like to be again, and a third wishes to be a clerk...
...that there has been a Harvard crew for years that has not rowed handsomely. I saw this year's Harvard eight on Charles river one day last week. They were returning from a long and arduous practice pull, and, although they were very tired, they were swinging along in that steamboat style which always makes Harvard so effective on race day. The men seem to get into the swing about as soon as they get positions in the boat. The men are in liberal training. They have the faults in the recovery of not feathering their oars, and they pause...