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Updated: May 17, 2025
"Corporal," said Phelan, to the dog, who had looked upon the whole episode as a physical-culture exercise indulged in for his special benefit, "a noble act of charity is never to be regretted, but wasn't I the original gun, not to wait for the change?" His lack of business method seemed to weigh upon him, and he continued to apologize to Corporal: "It was so sudden, you know, Corp.
In all the American newspapers and all the American monthlies are innumerable illustrated announcements of "physical-culture specialists," who guarantee to make all the organs of the body perform their duties with the mighty precision of a 60 h.p. motor-car that never breaks down.
But they were a resolved set, and they kept up the gait of progress of their sex with a good deal of success. They improved their minds and their bodies, having even a physical-culture club and a teacher coming weekly from the City. That there were links and a golf club goes without saying. It was spring, and golf had recommenced for some little time. Mrs. Henry Lee and Mrs.
Give the man of esthetic taste an idea of what the kindergarten does in developing the sense of beauty; show him in what way it is a primary art school. Explain to the musician your feeling about the influence of music; show the physical-culture people that in the kindergarten the body has an equal chance with mind and heart.
The sort of life you are leading now is what millionaires pay hundreds of dollars for at these physical-culture places. It has been the making of you. 'I don't feel made. 'Your nerves are ever so much better. 'They aren't. Elizabeth looked at him in alarm. 'Oh, Nutty, you haven't been seeing anything again, have you? 'Not seeing, dreaming. I've been dreaming about monkeys.
For the following account of water polo the author is indebted to a volume from Spalding's Athletic Library, entitled "Water Polo," written by L. de B. Handley, permission to use it having kindly been granted by the publishers: The value of an athletic game or contest is determined by four things: Its physical-culture merits; its utility; its attractiveness as a pastime, and its spectacular features.
Smith comes in refreshed from a half-day's sojourn in the open air, and I come away refreshed from a roomful of old friends talking three at a time amidst clouds of tobacco smoke. The trouble with so many of the physical-culture devotees is that they tire out the soul in trying to serve it.
My muscles were small and soft, like a woman's, or so the doctors had said time and again in the course of their attempts to persuade me to go in for physical-culture fads. But I had preferred to use my head rather than my body; and here I was, in no fit condition for the rough life in prospect.
"I should say not, if you fly at a ball in the same way you talk. You might get on a substitute team. Miss Watson, the physical-culture teacher, will hold a meeting soon. The first week of school is generally so busy that the gymnasium work is not begun. "But next week, she will meet the girls and make arrangements for the work on the teams and in the gym.
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