INDEX
lace, 280; of Washington, 343; of Webster, Daniel, 343; of Webster, Sir Richard, 397; of William the Conqueror, 278; of Wilson, 436; of Wellington, 318; of Wesley, 294.
Pictures in gymnasiums, 112.
Plato, on cripples, 11.
Playgrounds, American, 16.
Play of city children insufficient, 78.
"Pleb," setting up of, at West Point, 113.
Poke-necked wheelmen, 178.
Pores, clogged, 64.
Preacher, when a power in the pulpit, 468–475.
President Eliot on need of good body for a brain-worker, 62.
President Harper on student's need of a good body, 61.
Preventing diseases, 109.
Princes startled by eloquence of Chalmers, 471.
Professional men, value of health to, 57, 61; reducing weight by exercise and perspiration, 151.
Professional oarsmen, 21, 22.
Protracted mental work, 53.
Proverb, Sandwich Island, 50.
Pull-up, 98.
Pulmonary diseases, cause of, 237.
Pulpit, power in, 468; power of Chalmers in, 471; of Beecher in, 473.
Putney-to-Mortlake rowing course, 123, 125.
R
Radley School crews at Henley, 120.
Railroad men's need of good bodies, 63.
Raquets, 71.
Read, George R., as a "whip," 489.
Repair of brain by exercise, 30.
Repairing broken-down men, 19.
Respiration, types and methods of, 138.
Respiratory power, work to gain, 127.
Rest after eating, 156.
Results of exercise, 48, 49, 133.
Rheumatism, physical exercise helps to prevent, 163.
Rich, Beecher on getting, 70.
Richards, Professor, 98; work of, 111.
Riding, 71.
Roberts, Physical Director, 83, 84; feats of, 84, 98; abandonment of heavy work, 104.
Roberts, R. J., hints to wheelmen, 179.
Rockefeller, John D., his estimate of Rev. Dr. Broadus, 108.
Roman, gymnastic exercises, 110; Coliseum, 487; amphitheatre, 488.
Romantic Love and Personal Beauty, 34.
Roosevelt, Dr. J. W., on cycling, 177.
Rowell, Charles, in go-as-you-please racing, 97; training for, 97; outrunning greyhound, 97.
Rowing, 23; American, how managed, 121; reducing weight by, 146; effect of, on the back, 177; on the abdomen, 184; rounds shoulders, 192; Lehmann on, 477, 478; records of William B. Curtis at, 479.
Rowing-man, 19; Lehmann on longevity of, 477, 478; Morgan on longevity of, 477.
Rubbing down, 236.
Rubbing the skin with towels, 68.
Run-down stock, 97.
Running, 13, 71; of girls, 26, 79; by all children, 97; moderate, for all, 97; develops thighs, 174, 175; brings shapelier legs than wheeling, 178; develops abdominal muscles, 186; expands lungs, 204; by women, 230; by girls, 230.507
