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INDEX

Staying-power, and the lungs, 100.

Step, correct, 97.

Stethoscope, 72.

Stock, run-down, 97.

Stomach, third-rate, 19; held high properly secretes gastric juice, 101.

St. Andrews golf-links, 71, 72.

St. Paul's School, rowing at, 120, 121.

Strength, of women, 38; Blackie on, 51; Emerson on, 51; Mathews on, 51; Napoleon on, 51; of cheerfulness, 73.

Stretching the body, effect of, 100.

Striking-bag exercise, 232.

Structure, excellence of, 31.

Students, physical development of, 18; need of good bodies, 61; starvation of, 61; effect of exercise on, 153.

Study, by girls, need not break down, 26, 27.

Sullivan, John L., as a boxer, 206, 480; measurements of, 206, 207; chest of, 206; neck of, 207; longevity of, 208; wrestler, compared with Washington, 454; "a cat and a locomotive combined," 480.

Summer-school, Harvard, 81.

Sumner, Charles, body of, 437.

Swaying the shoulders sideways develops the sides, 182.

Sweater, how useful, 74.

Swimming, 71.

Symmetry, of hands, 25; from exercise, 30, 41.

Systematic education for girls, 29, 30.

T

Teachers' knowledge as to exercise, 18.

Ten Eyck, Edward Hanlan, 22, 121.

Tennis, of girls, 27, 71.

Tennyson, 376; his body, 378.

Theological Seminary, Beecher's oratorical training at, 474.

Thiers, Louis Adolphe, 164.

Thigh, how developed, 172; value of, 180.

Thighs, exercises for, in school, 215.

Thin, work for the, 145; how to stouten, 151, 152; writer's experience, 155; need rest, 157.

Thin men, building up, 129; "train up," 156.

Tidal air, 69.

"Tidal air," Huxley on, 201, 202.

Tight-rope walking develops the sides, 182.

Tired-faced men, 5.

"Tom Brown," on sleep, 53; vigor of, 53; constitutional of, 54.

"Tom Brown of Rugby," 391; body of, 392.

Toned-up heart, 72.

Torpid liver, exercise for, 182.

Track, athletics, 71, 97; running, for schools, 97.

Triceps muscles, work for, 196, 197.

Tuberculous tendency, how perspiration affects, 65.

Tug of war on cleats, dangers of, 188.

Types and methods of respiration, 137.

U

University crews, Lehmann on, 477.

V

Vacation which pays, 75.

Van Brunt, Charles H., 431; body of, 432.

Vanderbilt, William H., 63.

Vanderbilt's, Cornelius, long life, 67, 164; periauger, 57; work after he was fifty-two, 57, 337; self-reliance, 117; body, 339.

Vassar College, physical education at, 34.

Vaulting, 224.

Vices, secret or open, destroy the body, 131.

Vigor, Dr. S. Weir Mitchell on, 54.

Vital organs are developed by using nearest muscles, 102.

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