Word: weak
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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...
...great benefit, as leading men to perfect themselves in the parts where they are weakest. What is better still, is that this physical training and exercise is not confined to the members of selected teams and nines, but is open to and enjoyed by everyone, no matter how weak. Inducements for the latter to work, are not wanting. They find here an opportunity to put themselves on an equality with the strong by means of diligent and faithful work, and they stand the best chance for the development prizes...
According to the Lancet, "brain tension is not a proof of strength but of weakness. The knit brow, straining eyes, and fixed attention of the scholar are not tokens of power, but of effort. The intellectual man with a strong mind does his brain work easily. Tension is friction, and the moment the toil of a growing brain becomes laborious it should cease. We are, unfortunately, so accustomed to see brain work done with effort that we have come to associate effort with work, and to regard tension as something tolerable, if not natural. As a matter of fact...
...college has reason to expect a most interesting concert this evening. We are informed that the Glee Club has several very good new college songs. This will be sure to make a marked improvement in the club's work, as college songs have always been its weak point. The rest of the singing is sure to be excellent, as the club has splendid material and has been rehearsing more diligently than for years past. The Pierian is larger than ever before and some of its new members from the lower classes are up to professional standards. The Sodality...
...character of student life in the several colleges. Whatever may be one's outside opinion, however, once in his own college cheer of course will seem the best; and for example, to a Yale man all other college cheers can but appear but as poor parodies and weak chaff, as to a Harvard man, they appear as interesting types and pleasant follies. But of this we no doubt shall hear more anon...