Word: tested
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...year 1880, seven hundred and seventy-six men were physically examined. The strongest man out of this number showed in strength of lungs, back, legs, chest and arms, a grand total of 675.2. At the close of the summer term of the present year, the highest strength test recorded was 1272.8 and there were over two hundred men in college whose total strength test surpassed the highest test of 1880. This general gymnasium work is, therefore, reducing the one-sided development once so common with athletic specialists. It must not be forgotten, however, that there is a development peculiar...
...athletic sports, foot-ball is the best game to test a man physically. In the pushing and hauling, its jostling, trampling struggle for supremacy, few muscles of the body are inactive. In spite of the accidents attending this game, as at present played, no sport affords better opportunity for vigorous training. Though rowing contributes largely to the development of the back and legs, and slightly to the arms and chest, to the gymnasium and foot-ball training we must attribute much of the superb muscular development of rowing...
...simple factor, weight, height, and chest girths, could not be based a true estimate of ones physical condition. Realizing how much depends upon the proportion of the different parts of the body, he began his observations by an extended series of measurements. His next aim was to test the strength of the most important parts, for although as a rule, the girths of the different limbs represent the potential strength of their respective muscles, yet there are many exceptions, and the measurements have to be confirmed by an actual strength test. These trials were made by means of three spring...
...boat was built to test a stretcher, out-rigger and rowlocks of which Mr. Fearon was the inventer. Fearon agreed to furnish the boat at coast, which was $150, to put in his inventions for nothing and if they were unsuccessful to take them out and rig the boat in the ordinary manner...
This agreement was thought to be advantageous to the boat club because it secured for it at cost a pair oar, of which it then stood in need, a test of these inventions of Mr. Fearon, which several graduates prominent in boating matters had recommended as well worth a trial and if they proved to be of value, the sole use of them for one year...