[Keeping Fit All the Way by Walter Camp]@TWC D-Link bookKeeping Fit All the Way CHAPTER VII 14/21
Athletic trainers have come to look with considerable suspicion upon the gymnasium-made candidate with big biceps and large knots of muscles.
It was also found that, outside of weight-lifting and inordinate "chinning" and apparent great strength on the parallel bars, these men were not so valuable as the lesser muscled but more supple candidates.
To put it briefly, it was found in actual practice that what was under the ribs was of more value than what lay over them. A CALL FOR WORK THAT WILL COUNT Even at the risk of repetition, some facts should be driven home. We are now working under conditions that should especially emphasize the fact of time-saving.
We must take ourselves seriously, whether we are in the lines or behind the lines. In the eight million men in this country between the ages of forty-five and sixty-four are the country's greatest executives and financiers.
We can no longer give these executives and financiers two months in the South in the winter and a long summer vacation.
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